Li Minli, Li Bingren
In this paper, we point out that most results on abelian (complex) W*-algebras hold in the real case. Of course, there are differences in homeomorphisms of period 2. Moreover, an abelian real Von Neumann algebra not containing any minimal projection on a separable real Hilbert space is * isomorphic to Lτ∞ ([0, 1]) (all real functions in L∞([0, 1])), or L∞([0, 1]) (as a real W*-algebra), or Lτ∞ ([0, 1])⊕L∞ ([0, 1]) (as a real W*-algebra), and it is different from the complex case.