Operator spaces with few completely bounded maps

We construct several examples of Hilbertian operator spaces with few completely bounded maps. In particular, we give an example of a separable 1-Hilbertian operator space X₀ such that, whenever X is an infinite dimensional quotient of X₀, X is a subspace of X, and is a completely bounded map, then T=I_X+S, where S is compact Hilbert-Schmidt and ||S||₂/16||S||_cb||S||₂. Moreover, every infinite dimensional quotient of a subspace of X₀ fails the operator approximation property. We also show that every Banach space can be equipped with an operator space structure without the operator approximation property. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):The first author was supported in part by the NSF grants DMS-9970369, 0296094, and 0200714.     

Operator spaces with prescribed sets of completely bounded maps

Suppose A is a dual Banach algebra, and a representation π:A→B(?₂) is unital, weak* continuous, and contractive. We use a “Hilbert-Schmidt version” of Arveson distance formula to construct an operator space X, isometric to ?₂⊗?₂, such that the space of completely bounded maps on X consists of Hilbert-Schmidt perturbations of π(A)⊗I_?2. This allows us to establish the existence of operator spaces with various interesting properties. For instance, we construct an operator space X for which the group K₁(CB(X)) contains Z₂ as a subgroup, and a completely indecomposable operator space containing an infinite dimensional homogeneous Hilbertian subspace.     

Completely positive completion of partial matrices whose entries are completely bounded maps

We study completion problems of partial matrices associated with a graph where entries are completely bounded maps on aC ^*-algebra. We characterize a graph for which every -partial completely positive matrix has a completely positive completion. As a special case we study -partial functional matrices. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a -partial functional matrix to have a positive completion and a representation for such matrices. These generalize some results on inflated Schur product maps due to Paulsen, Power and Smith. As an application, we study completely positive completions of partial matrices whose entries are completely bounded multipliers of the Fourier algebra of a locally compact group.     

Nilpotent completely positive maps

We study the structure of nilpotent completely positive maps in terms of Choi-Kraus coefficients. We prove several inequalities, including certain majorization type inequalities for dimensions of kernels of powers of nilpotent completely positive maps.     

Completely positive module maps and completely positive extreme maps

Let be unital -algebras and be the set of all completely positive linear maps of into . In this article we characterize the extreme elements in , for all , and pure elements in in terms of a self-dual Hilbert module structure induced by each in . Let be the subset of consisting of -module maps for a von Neumann algebra . We characterize normal elements in to be extreme. Results here generalize various earlier results by Choi, Paschke and Lin.

     

Maps completely preserving idempotents and maps completely preserving square-zero operators

Let X, Y be real or complex Banach spaces with dimension greater than 2 and let A, B be standard operator algebras on X and Y, respectively. In this paper, we show that every map completely preserving idempotence from A onto B is either an isomorphism or (in the complex case) a conjugate isomorphism; every map completely preserving square-zero from A onto B is a scalar multiple of either an isomorphism or (in the complex case) a conjugate isomorphism.     

Modules and extremal completely positive maps

Convex sets of completely positive maps and positive-(semi)definite kernels are considered in a very general context of modules over $C^*$ -algebras and a complete characterization of their (regular) extremal points is obtained. As a byproduct, we determine extremal autocorrelation functions. We present a generalization for the Choi isomorphism widely used in quantum information theory and generalize the concept of a completely positive quantum instrument.     

Representations of completely bounded multilinear operators

A definition of a completely bounded multilinear operator from one C¹-algebra into another is introduced. Each completely bounded multilinear operator from a C¹-algebra into the algebra of bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space is shown to be representable in terms of ¹-representations of the C¹-algebra and interlacing operators. This result extends Wittstock's Theorem that decomposes a completely bounded linear operator from a C¹-algebra into an injective C¹-algebra into completely positive linear operators.     

The space of completely bounded module homomorphisms

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A completely bounded characterization of operator algebras

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Harmonic maps of bounded symmetric domains

Research supported in part by NNSFC, SFECC and ICTP