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Conditionally positive definite kernels in Hilbert $C^*$-modules

Operator Algebras 2017-09-26 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We investigate the notion of conditionally positive definite in the context of Hilbert CC^*-modules and present a characterization of the conditionally positive definiteness in terms of the usual positive definiteness. We give a Kolmogorov type representation of conditionally positive definite kernels in Hilbert CC^*-modules. As a consequence, we show that a CC^*-metric space (S,d)(S, d) is CC^*-isometric to a subset of a Hilbert CC^*-module if and only if K(s,t)=d(s,t)2K(s,t)=-d(s,t)^2 is a conditionally positive definite kernel. We also present a characterization of the order KKK'\leq K between conditionally positive definite kernels.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08382,
  title  = {Conditionally positive definite kernels in Hilbert $C^*$-modules},
  author = {Mohammad Sal Moslehian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08382},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, to appear in Positivity

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