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BIWEIGHTS AND ∗-HOMOMORPHISMS OF PARTIAL ∗-ALGEBRAS JEAN-PIERRE ANTOINE, CAMILLO TRAPANI, AND FRANCESCO TSCHINKE Received 26 May 2006; Revised 14 August 2006; Accepted 21 August 2006 Consider two partial ∗-algebras, A and A , and an ∗-homomorphism Φ from A into 1 2 1 A . Given a biweight ϕ on A , we discuss conditions under which the natural composition 2 2 ϕ ◦ Φ of ϕ and Φ is a biweight on A . In particular, we examine whether the restriction of 1 a biweight to a partial ∗-subalgebra is again a biweight. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction In the representation theory of ∗-algebras, one of the cornerstones is the well-known ˘ Gel’fand-Naımark-Segal (GNS) construction, which provides a way of building a con- crete representation of an abstract ∗-algebra. This is often crucial for physical applica- tions, for instance, in statistical mechanics or in quantum field theory. It has been realized some time ago that ∗-algebras of bounded operators are not suffi- cient for such applications, one needs also ∗-algebras of unbounded operators and even partial ∗-algebras of operators. A full-fledged theory of partial ∗-algebras has been devel- oped, covering both abstract partial ∗-algebras and their operator realizations, for which we refer to our recent monograph [4]. There the reader will find how the GNS construc- tion can be performed in the new extended framework. The crucial point is to replace positive linear forms by special sesquilinear forms (sometimes called invariant), in such a way that one can bypass many of the difficul- ties due to the lack of a noneverywhere defined multiplication and the nonassociativity of the partial multiplication. Moreover, for technical re