Thierry Jecko, Sylvain Golenia A new look at Mourre's commutator theory (488K, Postscript) ABSTRACT. Mourre's commutator theory is a powerful tool to study the continuous spectrum of self-adjoint operators and to develop scattering theory. We propose a new approach of its main result, namely the derivation of the limiting absorption principle from a so called Mourre estimate. We provide a new interpretation of this result.