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Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction
In functional analysis, given a C*-algebra A, the GNS construction establishes a correspondence between cyclic *-representations of A and certain linear functionals on A (called states). The correspondence is shown by an explicit construction of the *-representation from the state.
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