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$C^\ast$-extreme points of unital completely positive maps invariant under group action

Operator Algebras 2026-01-23 v1

Abstract

In this work, we study a sub-collection of unital completely positive maps from a unital CC^\ast-algebra A\mathcal{A} to B(H)\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}), the algebra of bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space H\mathcal{H} in the setting of CC^\ast-convexity. Let τ\tau be an action of a group GG on the CC^\ast-algebra A\mathcal{A} through CC^\ast-automorphisms. We focus our attention to the set of all unital completely positive maps from A\mathcal{A} to B(H)\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}), which remain invariant under τ\tau. We denote this collection by the notation UCPGτ(A,B(H))\text{UCP}^{G_\tau} \big(\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B} (\mathcal{H} ) \big). This collection forms a CC^\ast-convex set. We characterize the set of CC^\ast-extreme points of UCPGτ(A,B(H))\text{UCP}^{G_\tau} \big(\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B} (\mathcal{H} ) \big). Further, we conclude the article by proving the Krein--Milman type theorem in the setting of CC^\ast-convexity for the set UCPGτ(A,B(H))\text{UCP}^{G_\tau} \big(\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B} (\mathcal{H} ) \big).

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@article{arxiv.2601.15840,
  title  = {$C^\ast$-extreme points of unital completely positive maps invariant under group action},
  author = {Chaitanya J. Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15840},
  year   = {2026}
}

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