Are there any good introductory type of books that contain dilation theories of Sz-Nagy, Rohlin and Akcoglu?
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1$\begingroup$ Could you try to narrow down what you are looking for? I am aware of the Nagy dilation theorem but I don't really know what "dilation theory of Nagy" is supposed to be $\endgroup$– Yemon ChoiSep 1, 2013 at 2:58
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$\begingroup$ Yes, that's the one I was referring to: Sz-Nagy dilation. $\endgroup$– user39401Sep 9, 2013 at 23:16
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The following very readable book should be of interest to you:
V. Paulsen. "Completely bounded maps and operator algebras". Cambridge University Press (2003).
Apart from Paulsen's book on completely bounded maps you may find Harmonic Analysis of Operators on Hilbert Space by Sz.-Nagy, C. Foias, H. Bercovici & L. Kérchy interesting. It should cover most of Sz.-Nagy's work.
A nice exposition of the the Akcoglu-Sucheston dilation theorem (with full proofs) can be found in G. Fendler's lecture notes On Dilations and Transference for Continuous One-Parameter Semigroups of Positive Contractions on Lp-spaces