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AN INTERNAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPLETE POSITIVITY FOR ELEMENTARY OPERATORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2002

Richard M. Timoney
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Complete positivity of ‘atomically extensible’ bounded linear operators between $C^*$-algebras is characterized in terms of positivity of a bilinear form on certain finite-rank operators. In the case of an elementary operator on a $C^*$-algebra, the approach leads us to characterize k-positivity of the operator in terms of positivity of a quadratic form on a subset of the dual space of the algebra and in terms of a certain inequality involving factorial states of finite type I.

As an application we characterize those $C^*$-algebras where every k-positive elementary operator on the algebra is completely positive. They are either k-subhomogeneous or k-subhomogeneous by antiliminal. We also give a dual approach to the metric operator space introduced by Arveson.

AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 46L05. Secondary 47B47; 47B65

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2002