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Bicommutant

In algebra, the bicommutant of a subset of a group is the commutant of the commutant of that subset. It is also known as the double commutant or second commutant and is written .

The bicommutant of always contains . Since , it follows that the commutant of the bicommutant of is equal to the commutant of . Thus we have

,

.

See also von Neumann double commutant theorem.

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