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Stinespring's theorem: can we choose the dilation to be an isometry?

Let $A$ be a $C^*$-algebra and $\varphi: A \to B(H)$ be a completely positive contractive map. Stinespring's theorem says that there exists a $*$-representation $\pi: A \to B(H')$ and a bounded ...
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Can the intersection of a unitary and an irreducibly represented injective $C^*$-algebra be $\{0\}$?

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an injective $C^*$-algebra irreducibly acting on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, and let $\phi$ be a completely positive idempotent from $\mathbb{B}(\mathcal{H})$ onto $\mathcal{A}$...
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Complete positivity with infinite dimensional auxillary spaces

The usual definition of complete positivity (e.g. Stinespring (1955), or Holevo's Statistical Structure of Quantum Theory) is that a linear map between (sub $C^*$ algebras of) the bounded operators on ...
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Maps which are both completely positive and positive

Definition:A linear map $f:\mathbb C^n\to \mathbb C^n$ is called positive if $\langle fa,a\rangle\ge0$ for all $a\in \mathbb C^n$. Equivalently, $f\in M_{n}(\mathbb C)$ is positive if it can be ...
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Does the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality imply 2-positivity?

Recall the following generalisation of Cauchy–Schwarz. Theorem. Let $f\colon \mathscr{A} \to \mathscr{B}$ be a linear 2-positive map between C$^*$-algebras. Then for all $a,b \in \mathscr{A}$ we ...
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When are completely positive maps monic/epic?

In the category of C*-algebras and $*$-homomorphisms, a morphism is monic precisely when it is injective, and epic precisely when it is surjective (see Mono- and epi-morphisms for C*-algebras). Is ...