Abstract
We study the block projection operator \(\mathcal{P}_n\) , \(n \geq 2\) , in the \(*\) -algebra \(S(\mathcal{M}, \tau)\) of all \(\tau\) -measurable operators, where \(\tau\) is a faithful normal semi-finite trace on the von Neumann algebra \(\mathcal{M}\) . For a state \(\tau\) , we study the variance \(\mathbb D\) of an operator from \(L_2(\mathcal{M},\tau)\) . These results are new, even for the \(*\) -algebra \(\mathcal{M}=\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})\) of all bounded linear operators in \(\mathcal{H}\) equipped with canonical trace \(\tau =\mathrm{tr}\) . For a random bounded linear operator \(\mathbf{A}\) in a Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\) , we consider the operator-valued random variance \(\mathbf{D}(\mathbf{A})\) , which is used to investigate the validity of the law of large numbers for the product of independent identically distributed semigroups of bounded linear operators. We present conditions on a bounded self-adjoint operator \(X\in \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H})\) and on a random operator \(\mathbf{A}\) , whose variances are related as \(\mathbb{D}(X)=\tau (\mathbf{D}(\mathbf{A}))\) .