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Graph products of completely positive maps

Operator Algebras 2017-07-07 v2

Abstract

We define the graph product of unital completely positive maps on a universal graph product of unital C*-algebras and show that it is unital completely positive itself. To accomplish this, we introduce the notion of the non-commutative length of a word, and we obtain a Stinespring construction for concatenation. This result yields the following consequences. The graph product of positive-definite functions is positive-definite. A graph product version of von Neumann's Inequality holds. Graph independent contractions on a Hilbert space simultaneously dilate to graph independent unitaries.

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@article{arxiv.1706.07389,
  title  = {Graph products of completely positive maps},
  author = {Scott Atkinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07389},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages. Introduction updated. More references included. Minor revisions. Submitted version