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arxiv: math/0510005 · v2 · submitted 2005-09-30 · 🧮 math.FA · math.OA

Decomposability of extremal positive unital maps on M₂

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keywords positiveunitaldecomposabledecompositionextremalmapscasesco-cp
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A map $\phi:M_m(\bC)\to M_n(\bC)$ is decomposable if it is of the form $\phi=\phi_1+\phi_2$ where $\phi_1$ is a CP map while $\phi_2$ is a co-CP map. It is known that if $m=n=2$ then every positive map is decomposable. Given an extremal unital positive map $\phi:M_2(\bC)\to M_2(\bC)$ we construct concrete maps (not necessarily unital) $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$ which give a decomposition of $\phi$. We also show that in most cases this decomposition is unique.

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