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On extremal positive maps acting between type I factors

Operator Algebras 2014-06-17 v3 Functional Analysis Quantum Physics

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problem of classification of extremal positive maps acting between B(K)B(K) and B(H)B(H) where KK and HH are Hilbert spaces. It is shown that every positive map with the property that \rankϕ(P)1\rank \phi(P)\leq 1 for any one-dimensional projection PP is a rank 1 preserver. It allows to characterize all decomposable extremal maps as those which satisfy the above condition. Further, we prove that every extremal positive map which is 2-positive turns out to automatically completely positive. Finally we get the same conclusion for such extremal positive maps that \rankϕ(P)1\rank \phi(P)\leq 1 for some one-dimensional projection PP and satisfy the condition of local complete positivity. It allows us to give a negative answer for Robertson's problem in some special cases.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2311,
  title  = {On extremal positive maps acting between type I factors},
  author = {Marcin Marciniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2311},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

21 pages; corrected typos, Remark 5.10 on page 20 added

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