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Decomposable and atomic projection maps

Operator Algebras 2009-04-02 v1

Abstract

It is shown that a trace invariant projection map, i.e. a positive unital idempotent map, of a finite dimensional C*-algebra into itself is non-decomposable if and only if it is atomic, or equivalently not the sum of a 2-positive and a 2-copositive map. In particular projections onto spin factors of dimension greater than 6 are atomic.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0103,
  title  = {Decomposable and atomic projection maps},
  author = {Erling Stormer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0103},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages

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