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Positive contractive projections in Schatten Spaces

Functional Analysis 2025-09-30 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We characterize the positively 1-complemented subspaces of SpS^p, for 1p<1\leq p<\infty, where SpS^p denotes the Schatten spaces. Building on the work of Arazy and Friedman, who described the 1-complemented subspaces of SpS^p, for 1p2<1\leq p\neq 2 <\infty, we establish that there are five mutually distinct types of indecomposable positively 1-complemented subspaces in SpS^p. Moreover, every positively 1-complemented subspace of SpS^p can be expressed as a direct sum of some of these indecomposable subspaces.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23701,
  title  = {Positive contractive projections in Schatten Spaces},
  author = {Estelle Boffy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23701},
  year   = {2025}
}
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