Based on the characterization of surjective $L^p$-isometries of unitary groups in finite factors, we describe all surjective $L^p$-isometries between Grassmann spaces of projections with the same trace value in semifinite factors.
Let $mathcal{M}$ be a von Neumann algebra with a normal semifinite faithful trace $tau$. We prove that every continuous $m$-homogeneous polynomial $P$ from $L^p(mathcal{M},tau)$, with $0<p<infty$, into each topological linear space $X$ with the property that $P(x+y)=P(x)+P(y)$ whenever $x$ and $y$ are mutually orthogonal positive elements of $L^p(mathcal{M},tau)$ can be represented in the form $P(x)=Phi(x^m)$ $(xin L^p(mathcal{M},tau))$ for some continuous linear map $Phicolon L^{p/m}(mathcal{M},tau)to X$.
Let $mathcal{M}$ be an atomless semifinite von Neumann algebra (or an atomic von Neumann algebra with all atoms having the same trace) acting on a (not necessarily separable) Hilbert space $H$ equipped with a semifinite faithful normal trace $tau$. Let $E(mathcal{M},tau) $ be a symmetric operator space affiliated with $ mathcal{M} $, whose norm is order continuous and is not proportional to the Hilbertian norm $left|cdotright|_2$ on $L_2(mathcal{M},tau)$. We obtain general description of all bounded hermitian operators on $E(mathcal{M},tau)$. This is the first time that the description of hermitian operators on asymmetric operator space (even for a noncommutative $L_p$-space) is obtained in the setting of general (non-hyperfinite) von Neumann algebras. As an application, we resolve a long-standing open problem concerning the description of isometries raised in the 1980s, which generalizes and unifies numerous earlier results.
Let $mathcal{M}$ be a von Neumann algebra, and let $0<p,qleinfty$. Then the space $Hom_mathcal{M}(L^p(mathcal{M}),L^q(mathcal{M}))$ of all right $mathcal{M}$-module homomorphisms from $L^p(mathcal{M})$ to $L^q(mathcal{M})$ is a reflexive subspace of the space of all continuous linear maps from $L^p(mathcal{M})$ to $L^q(mathcal{M})$. Further, the space $Hom_mathcal{M}(L^p(mathcal{M}),L^q(mathcal{M}))$ is hyperreflexive in each of the following cases: (i) $1le q<pleinfty$; (ii) $1le p,qleinfty$ and $mathcal{M}$ is injective, in which case the hyperreflexivity constant is at most $8$.
For a closed cocompact subgroup $Gamma$ of a locally compact group $G$, given a compact abelian subgroup $K$ of $G$ and a homomorphism $rho:hat{K}to G$ satisfying certain conditions, Landstad and Raeburn constructed equivariant noncommutative deformations $C^*(hat{G}/Gamma, rho)$ of the homogeneous space $G/Gamma$, generalizing Rieffels construction of quantum Heisenberg manifolds. We show that when $G$ is a Lie group and $G/Gamma$ is connected, given any norm on the Lie algebra of $G$, the seminorm on $C^*(hat{G}/Gamma, rho)$ induced by the derivation map of the canonical $G$-action defines a compact quantum metric. Furthermore, it is shown that this compact quantum metric space depends on $rho$ continuously, with respect to quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distances.