Paulsen, Vern I. Completely bounded maps and dilations. (English) Zbl 0614.47006 Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 146. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman Scientific & Technical. Copubl. in the United States with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. IX, 187 p. £15.00 (1986). This book gives a self contained exposition of the theory of completely positive and completely bounded maps between \(C^*\)-algebras, and the application of this theory to similarity and dilation theory. A particular emphasis is given on applications to operator theory. Dilation theory is presented from an algebraic point of view. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Positive Maps; 3. Completely Positive Maps; 4. Dilation Theorems; 5. Completely Positive maps into \(M_ n\); 6. Averson’s Extension Theorems; 7. Completely Bounded Maps; 8. Completely Bounded Homomorphisms; 9. Applications to K-spectral Sets; 10. Tensor Products and Joint Spectral Sets. At the end of each chapter there are many exercises. Reviewer: I.Vidav Cited in 8 ReviewsCited in 243 Documents MSC: 47A20 Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators 47-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operator theory 46C05 Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) 46L05 General theory of \(C^*\)-algebras Keywords:completely positive and completely bounded maps between \(C^ *\)- algebras; similarity; dilation theory; Averson’s Extension Theorems; Completely Bounded Homomorphisms; K-spectral Sets; Tensor Products; Joint Spectral Sets PDFBibTeX XML