Completely Bounded Maps and Operator Algebras

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Cambridge University Press, 2002 - Mathematics - 300 pages
In this book, first published in 2003, the reader is provided with a tour of the principal results and ideas in the theories of completely positive maps, completely bounded maps, dilation theory, operator spaces and operator algebras, together with some of their main applications. The author assumes only that the reader has a basic background in functional analysis, and the presentation is self-contained and paced appropriately for graduate students new to the subject. Experts will also want this book for their library since the author illustrates the power of methods he has developed with new and simpler proofs of some of the major results in the area, many of which have not appeared earlier in the literature. An indispensable introduction to the theory of operator spaces for all who want to know more.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Positive Maps
9
Completely Positive Maps
26
Dilation Theorems
43
Commuting Contractions on Hilbert Space
58
Completely Positive Maps into Mn
73
Arvesons Extension Theorems
84
Completely Bounded Maps
97
Tensor Products and Joint Spectral Sets
159
Abstract Characterizations of Operator Systems and Operator Spaces
175
An Operator Space Bestiary
186
Injective Envelopes
206
Abstract Operator Algebras
225
Completely Bounded Multilinear Maps and the Haagerup Tensor Norm
239
Universal Operator Algebras and Factorization
260
Similarity and Factorization
273

Completely Bounded Homomorphisms
120
Polynomially Bounded and PowerBounded Operators
135
Applications to KSpectral Sets
150

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