A Comment on Jones Inclusions with infinite Index

Abstract

Given an irreducible inclusion of infinite von-Neumann-algebras $\cn \subset \cm$ together with a conditional expectation $ E : \cm \rightarrow \cm $ such that the inclusion has depth 2, we show quite explicitely how $\cn $ can be viewed as the fixed point algebra of $\cm$ w.r.t. an outer action of a compact Kac-algebra acting on $\cm$. This gives an alternative proof, under this special setting of a more general result of M. Enock and R. Nest, [E-N], see also S. Yamagami, [Ya2].