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Bilinear forms on exact operator spaces and B(H)\otimes B(H)

Functional Analysis 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

Let E,FE,F be exact operators (For example subspaces of the CC^*-algebra K(H)K(H) of all the compact operators on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space HH). We study a class of bounded linear maps u ⁣:EFu\colon E\to F^* which we call tracially bounded. In particular, we prove that every completely bounded (in short c.b.c.b.) map u ⁣:EFu\colon E\to F^* factors boundedly through a Hilbert space. This is used to show that the set OSnOS_n of all nn-dimensional operator spaces equipped with the c.b.c.b. version of the Banach Mazur distance is not separable if n>2n>2. As an application we show that there is more than one CC^*-norm on B(H)B(H)B(H)\otimes B(H), or equivalently that B(H)minB(H)B(H)maxB(H),B(H)\otimes_{\min}B(H)\not=B(H)\otimes_{\max}B(H), which answers a long standing open question. Finally we show that every ``maximal" operator space (in the sense of Paulsen) is not exact in the infinite dimensional case, and in the finite dimensional case, we give a lower bound for the ``exactness constant".

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@article{arxiv.math/9308208,
  title  = {Bilinear forms on exact operator spaces and B(H)\otimes B(H)},
  author = {Marius Junge and Gilles Pisier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9308208},
  year   = {2016}
}
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