International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 17 (1994), Issue 1, Pages 27-30
doi:10.1155/S0161171294000049

Completely positive linear operators for Banach spaces

Mingze Yang

Department of Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan, Sask., Saskatoon S7N 0W0, Canada

Abstract

Using ideas of Pisier, the concept of complete positivity is generalized in a different direction in this paper, where the Hilbert space is replaced with a Banach space and its conjugate linear dual. The extreme point results of Arveson are reformulated in this more general setting.