Algebras of distributions suitable for phase-space quantum mechanics. II. Topologies on the Moyal algebra

Abstract

The topology of the Moyal *-algebra may be defined in three ways: the algebra may be regarded as an operator algebra over the space of smooth declining functions either on the configuration space or on the phase space itself; or one may construct the *-algebra via a filtration of Hilbert spaces (or other Banach spaces) of distributions. The equivalence of the three topologies thereby obtained is proved. As a consequence, by filtrating the space of tempered distributions by Banach subspaces, new sufficient conditions are given for a phase-space function to correspond to a trace-class operator via the Weyl correspondence rule.