Paired $E_0$-Semigroups

Abstract

In these notes we prove two main results: 1) It is well-known that two strongly continuous $E_0$-semigroups on $B(H)$ can be paired if and only if they have anti-isomorphic Arveson systems. For a new notion of pairing (which coincides only for $B(H)$ with the existing one), we show: For a von Neumann algebra $B$, a strongly continuous $E_0$-semigroup on $B$ and a strongly continuous $E_0$-semigroup on $B'$ can be paired if and only if their product systems are commutants of each other. 2) On the way to prove the former, en passant we have to fill in a long standing important gap in the theory of intertwiner product systems \`a la Arveson (known, so far, only for $B(H)$ in the separable case): Intertwiner product systems of faithful strongly continuous $E_0$-semigroups on von Neumann algebras have sufficiently many strongly continuous sections. We explain why both results are entirely out of reach for Arveson's methods [Arv89,Arv90] and depend essentially on the alternative approach from Skeide [Ske16].