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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2007, Article ID 43013, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2007/43013 Research Article Bitraces on Partial O∗-Algebras G. O. S. Ekhaguere Received 12 March 2006; Revised 12 December 2006; Accepted 27 February 2007 Recommended by Lokenath Debnath Unbounded bitraces on partial O∗-algebras are considered, a class of ideals defined by them is exhibited, and several relationships between certain commutants, bicommutants, and tricommutants associated with the ∗-representations and ∗-antirepresentations de- termined by the bitraces are established. Moreover, a notion of a partial W∗-algebra of ∗ unbounded densely defined linear maps on a Hilbert space, as a generalization of a W - algebra, is introduced and a set of criteria for classifying such algebras by means of the type of bitraces that are defined on them is proposed. Copyright © 2007 G. O. S. Ekhaguere. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Unbounded traces, which form a special class of weights, on W∗-algebras [1–4] of con- tinuous linear operators on a Hilbert space give rise to ∗-representations and ∗-anti- representations of these algebras. The ∗-maps play a fundamental role in the classifica- tion of W∗-algebras. In this paper, we consider certain partial O∗-algebras, equipped with unbounded bi- traces. For details about partial ∗-algebras and some of their applications, see, for ex- ample, [5– 11]. Unbounded bitraces are a special class of biweights. A discussion of some features of biweights on partial ∗-algebras is given in [5] and [12, Chapter 9], and a class of biweights