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Dilations and Hahn Decompositions for Linear Maps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. W. Hadwin
D. W. Hadwin*
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University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
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Suppose is a C*-algebra and H is a Hilbert space. Let denote the set of completely positive maps from into the set B(H) of (bounded linear) operators on H. This paper studies the vector space spanned by , i.e., the linear maps that are finite linear combinations of completely positive maps. From another viewpoint, a map ϕ is in precisely when it has a decomposition ϕ = (ϕ1 – ϕ2) + i(ϕ3 – ϕ4) with ϕ1, ϕ2, ϕ3, ϕ4 in CP ; this decomposition is analogous to the Hahn decomposition for measures [8, 111.4.10] (see also Theorem 20). The analogous class of maps with “completely positive” replaced by “positive” was studied by R. I. Loebl [11] and S.-K. Tsui [17], and when is commutative, this latter class coincides withi , since every positive linear map on a commutative C*-algebra is completely positive [16].

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1981 , pp. 826 - 839
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1981

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