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Decomposability of extremal positive unital maps on $M_2$

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

A map ϕ:Mm(\bC)Mn(\bC)\phi:M_m(\bC)\to M_n(\bC) is decomposable if it is of the form ϕ=ϕ1+ϕ2\phi=\phi_1+\phi_2 where ϕ1\phi_1 is a CP map while ϕ2\phi_2 is a co-CP map. It is known that if m=n=2m=n=2 then every positive map is decomposable. Given an extremal unital positive map ϕ:M2(\bC)M2(\bC)\phi:M_2(\bC)\to M_2(\bC) we construct concrete maps (not necessarily unital) ϕ1\phi_1 and ϕ2\phi_2 which give a decomposition of ϕ\phi. We also show that in most cases this decomposition is unique.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510005,
  title  = {Decomposability of extremal positive unital maps on $M_2$},
  author = {Wladyslaw A. Majewski and Marcin Marciniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510005},
  year   = {2007}
}

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