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The concept of locality in quantum physics leads to mathematical structures in which the basic object is an operator algebra with a net of distinguished subalgebras (the “local” subalgebras). Such nets provide a classification of the states of this algebra in equivalence classes determined by local or asymptotic properties. The corresponding equivalence relations are natural generalizations of the (more stringent) standard quasiequivalence relation (they are also useful for classifying states by their properties with respect to automorphism groups). After discussing general nets from this point of view we investigate in the last section more specialized nets (funnels of von Neumann algebras) with special emphasis on their locally normal states.
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The research in this paper was supported in part by the N.S.F. and the Ministère de l'Education Nationale.
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Haag, R., Kadison, R.V. & Kastler, D. Nets ofC*-algebras and classification of states. Commun.Math. Phys. 16, 81–104 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01646615
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