Local Multiplers of C-Algebras (Springer Monographs in Mathematics) (2003. XII, 320 p.)

In the theory of operator algebras, a C*-algebra A that turns out to be small in this sense tradition­ ally is enlarged to its (universal) enveloping von Neumann algebra A". This works well since von Neumann algebras are in many respects richer and, from the Banach space point of view, A" is nothing other than the second dual space of A.