ABSTRACT

Chapter 9

Hilbert Modules

9.1 Continuous Hilbert bundles

Measurable Hilbert bundles were introduced in Chapter 2 (Denition

2.4.8), and they played an important role in Chapters 3, 5, and 6. We

begin this chapter by describing a continuous version of the construction;

next we revisit the measurable version; and then we introduce Hilbert

modules over C*- and von Neumann algebras, which are the quantum

analogs of Hilbert bundles.