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Contractively complemented subspaces of pre-symmetric spaces

Operator Algebras 2015-12-11 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

In 1965, Ron Douglas proved that if XX is a closed subspace of an L1L^1-space and XX is isometric to another L1L^1-space, then XX is the range of a contractive projection on the containing L1L^1-space. In 1977 Arazy-Friedman showed that if a subspace XX of C1C_1 is isometric to another C1C_1-space (possibly finite dimensional), then there is a contractive projection of C1C_1 onto XX. In 1993 Kirchberg proved that if a subspace XX of the predual of a von Neumann algebra MM is isometric to the predual of another von Neumann algebra, then there is a contractive projection of the predual of MM onto XX. We widen significantly the scope of these results by showing that if a subspace XX of the predual of a JBWJBW^*-triple AA is isometric to the predual of another JBWJBW^*-triple BB, then there is a contractive projection on the predual of AA with range XX, as long as BB does not have a direct summand which is isometric to a space of the form L(Ω,H)L^\infty(\Omega,H), where HH is a Hilbert space of dimension at least two. The result is false without this restriction on BB.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0734,
  title  = {Contractively complemented subspaces of pre-symmetric spaces},
  author = {Matthew Neal and Bernard Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0734},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages

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