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Contractivity and complete contractivity for finite dimensional Banach Spaces

Functional Analysis 2016-04-08 v1

Abstract

Choose an arbitrary but fixed set of n×nn\times n matrices A1,,AmA_1, \ldots, A_m and let ΩACm\Omega_\mathbf A\subset \mathbb C^m be the unit ball with respect to the norm A,\|\cdot\|_{\mathbf A}, where (z1,,zm)A=z1A1++zmAmop.\|(z_1,\ldots ,z_m)\|_{\mathbf A}=\|z_1A_1+ \cdots+z_mA_m\|_{\rm op}. It is known that if m3m\geq 3 and B\mathbb B is any ball in Cm\mathbb C^m with respect to some norm, say B,\|\cdot\|_{\mathbb B}, then there exists a contractive linear map L:(Cm,B)MkL:(\mathbb C^m,\|\cdot\|^*_{\mathbb B})\to \mathcal M_k which is not completely contractive. The characterization of those balls in C2\mathbb C^2 for which contractive linear maps are always completely contractive thus remains open. We answer this question for balls of the form ΩA\Omega_\mathbf A in C2.\mathbb C^2.

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@article{arxiv.1604.01872,
  title  = {Contractivity and complete contractivity for finite dimensional Banach Spaces},
  author = {Gadadhar Misra and Avijit Pal and Cherian Varughese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01872},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

The results in this paper are from the PhD thesis of the second author (arxiv:1408.2389). Many of the proofs have been significantly simplified

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