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We provide a description of certain invariance properties of completely bounded bimodule maps in terms of their symbols. If $mathbb{G}$ is a locally compact quantum group, we characterise the completely bounded $L^{infty}(mathbb{G})$-bimodule maps that send $C_0(hat{mathbb{G}})$ into $L^{infty}(hat{mathbb{G}})$ in terms of the properties of the corresponding elements of the normal Haagerup tensor product $L^{infty}(mathbb{G}) otimes_{sigma{rm h}} L^{infty}(mathbb{G})$. As a consequence, we obtain an intrinsic characterisation of the normal completely bounded $L^{infty}(mathbb{G})$-bimodule maps that leave $L^{infty}(hat{mathbb{G}})$ invariant, extending and unifying results, formulated in the current literature separately for the commutative and the co-commutative cases.
D. Bures had defined a metric on the set of normal states on a von Neumann algebra using GNS representations of states. This notion has been extended to completely positive maps between $C^*$-algebras by D. Kretschmann, D. Schlingemann and R. F. Werner. We present a Hilbert $C^*$-module version of this theory. We show that we do get a metric when the completely positive maps under consideration map to a von Neumann algebra. Further, we include several examples and counter examples. We also prove a rigidity theorem, showing that representation modules of completely positive maps which are close to the identity map contain a copy of the original algebra.
A matrix convex set is a set of the form $mathcal{S} = cup_{ngeq 1}mathcal{S}_n$ (where each $mathcal{S}_n$ is a set of $d$-tuples of $n times n$ matrices) that is invariant under UCP maps from $M_n$ to $M_k$ and under formation of direct sums. We study the geometry of matrix convex sets and their relationship to completely positive maps and dilation theory. Key ingredients in our approach are polar duality in the sense of Effros and Winkler, matrix ranges in the sense of Arveson, and concrete constructions of scaled commuting normal dilation for tuples of self-adjoint operators, in the sense of Helton, Klep, McCullough and Schweighofer. Given two matrix convex sets $mathcal{S} = cup_{n geq 1} mathcal{S}_n,$ and $mathcal{T} = cup_{n geq 1} mathcal{T}_n$, we find geometric conditions on $mathcal{S}$ or on $mathcal{T}$, such that $mathcal{S}_1 subseteq mathcal{T}_1$ implies that $mathcal{S} subseteq Cmathcal{S}$ for some constant $C$. For instance, under various symmetry conditions on $mathcal{S}$, we can show that $C$ above can be chosen to equal $d$, the number of variables, and in some cases this is sharp. We also find an essentially unique self-dual matrix convex set $mathcal{D}$, the self-dual matrix ball, for which corresponding inclusion and dilation results hold with constant $C=sqrt{d}$. Our results have immediate implications to spectrahedral inclusion problems studied recently by Helton, Klep, McCullough and Schweighofer. Our constants do not depend on the ranks of the pencils determining the free spectrahedra in question, but rather on the number of variables $d$. There are also implications to the problem of existence of (unital) completely positive maps with prescribed values on a set of operators.
We initiate the study of the completely bounded multipliers of the Haagerup tensor product $A(G)otimes_{rm h} A(G)$ of two copies of the Fourier algebra $A(G)$ of a locally compact group $G$. If $E$ is a closed subset of $G$ we let $E^{sharp} = {(s,t) : stin E}$ and show that if $E^{sharp}$ is a set of spectral synthesis for $A(G)otimes_{rm h} A(G)$ then $E$ is a set of local spectral synthesis for $A(G)$. Conversely, we prove that if $E$ is a set of spectral synthesis for $A(G)$ and $G$ is a Moore group then $E^{sharp}$ is a set of spectral synthesis for $A(G)otimes_{rm h} A(G)$. Using the natural identification of the space of all completely bounded weak* continuous $VN(G)$-bimodule maps with the dual of $A(G)otimes_{rm h} A(G)$, we show that, in the case $G$ is weakly amenable, such a map leaves the multiplication algebra of $L^{infty}(G)$ invariant if and only if its support is contained in the antidiagonal of $G$.
It is well-known that if T is a D_m-D_n bimodule map on the m by n complex matrices, then T is a Schur multiplier and $|T|_{cb}=|T|$. If n=2 and T is merely assumed to be a right D_2-module map, then we show that $|T|_{cb}=|T|$. However, this property fails if m>1 and n>2. For m>1 and n=3,4 or $ngeq m^2$, we give examples of maps T attaining the supremum C(m,n)=sup |T|_{cb} taken over the contractive, right D_n-module maps on M_{m,n}, we show that C(m,m^2)=sqrt{m} and succeed in finding sharp results for C(m,n) in certain other cases. As a consequence, if H is an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and D is a masa in B(H), then there is a bounded right D-module map on the compact operators K(H) which is not completely bounded.
The generalized state space $ S_{mathcal{H}}(mathcal{mathcal{A}})$ of all unital completely positive (UCP) maps on a unital $C^*$-algebra $mathcal{A}$ taking values in the algebra $mathcal{B}(mathcal{H})$ of all bounded operators on a Hilbert space $mathcal{H}$, is a $C^ast$-convex set. In this paper, we establish a connection between $C^ast$-extreme points of $S_{mathcal{H}}(mathcal{A})$ and a factorization property of certain algebras associated to the UCP map. In particular, this factorization property of some nest algebras is used to give a complete characterization of those $C^ast$-extreme maps which are direct sums of pure UCP maps. This significantly extends a result of Farenick and Zhou [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998)] from finite to infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Also it is shown that normal $C^ast$-extreme maps on type $I$ factors are direct sums of normal pure UCP maps if and only if an associated algebra is reflexive. Further, a Krein-Milman type theorem is established for $C^ast$-convexity of the set $ S_{mathcal{H}}(mathcal{A})$ equipped with bounded weak topology, whenever $mathcal{A}$ is a separable $C^ast$-algebra or it is a type $I$ factor. As an application, we provide a new proof of a classical factorization result on operator valued Hardy algebras.