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IJMMS 2004:21, 1077–1096 PII. S0161171204307155 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. DERIVATIONS OF QUASI ∗-ALGEBRAS F. BAGARELLO, A. INOUE, and C. TRAPANI Received 17 July 2003 The spatiality of derivations of quasi ∗-algebras is investigated by means of representation theory. Moreover, in view of physical applications, the spatiality of the limit of a family of spatial derivations is considered. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47L60, 47L90. 1. Introduction. In the so-called algebraic approach to quantum systems, one of the basic problems to be solved consists in the rigorous definition of the algebraic dynam- ics, that is, the time evolution of observables and/or states. For instance, in quantum statistical mechanics or in quantum field theory, one tries to recover the dynamics by performing a certain limit of the strictly local dynamics. However, this can be success- fully done only for few models and under quite strong topological assumptions (see, e.g., [22] and the references therein). In many physical models, the use of local observ- ables corresponds, roughly speaking, to the introduction of some cutoff (and to its successive removal) and this is in a sense a general and frequently used procedure; see [8, 10, 21, 23] for conservative systems and [1, 9] for dissipative ones. Introducing a cutoff means that in the description of some physical system, we know a regularized Hamiltonian HL , where L is a certain parameter closely depending on the nature of the system under consideration. The role of the commutator [H ,A], A being L an observable of the physical system (in a sense that will be made clearer in the follow- ing), is crucial in the analysis of the dynamics of the system. We have discussed s