International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 1 (1978), Issue 2, Pages 209-215
doi:10.1155/S0161171278000241
  
     
          
          On the range of completely bounded maps
          
            Richard I. Loebl
          
          Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit 48202, Michigan, USA
          
          Abstract
It is shown that if every bounded linear map from a C*-algebra α to a von Neumann algebra β is completely bounded, then either α is finite-dimensional or β⫅𝒞⊗Mn, where 𝒞 is a commutative von Neumann algebra and Mn is the algebra of n×n complex matrices.