The operation called Connes fusion (after Alain Connes) is a tensor product operation of Hilbert space bimodules over von Neumann algebras that adjusts the naive algebraic tensor product.
Connes fusion is used to define fusion of positive energy representations of the loop group in
It is used in a proposal for a construction of string group-principal bundles in the context of finding geometric models for elliptic cohomology in
The fusion operation on Hilbert modules of von Neumann algebras has been described in
and in 1983 studied further by V. Jones in context of subfactors.
A useful review of Connes fusion observing some simplifications is
An attempt to summarize that in a blog entry is here
R. M Brower and N. P. Landsman described a bicategory of von Neumann algebras, Connes’ correspondences as morphisms and (bounded) intertwiners as 2-cells. They proved that the equivalence in that bicategory is the same as usual Morita equivalence of von Neumann algebras as studied by Mark Rieffel and others.
Construction of Connes fusion of fibers of stringor bundles:
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