Journal of Operator Theory

Volume 82, Issue 1, Summer 2019 pp. 23-47.

Contractivity and complete contractivity for finite dimensional Banach spaces

Authors: Gadadhar Misra (1), Avijit Pal (2), Cherian Varughese (3)
Author institution:(1) Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India
(2) Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Raipur - 492015, India
(3) Renaissance Communications, Bangalore - 560 058, India

Summary: It is known that if $m\geqslant 3$ and $\mathbb B$ is any ball in $\mathbb C^m$ with respect to some norm, say $\|\cdot\|_{\mathbb B},$ then there exists a linear map $L:(\mathbb C^m,\|\cdot\|^*_{\mathbb B})\to \mathcal M_k$ which is contractive but not completely contractive. The characterization of those balls in $\mathbb C^2$ for which contractive linear maps are always completely contractive, however, remains open. We answer this question for balls of the form $\Omega_\mathbf A$ in $\mathbb C^2$ and the balls in their norm dual, where $\Omega_\mathbf A = \{(z_1, z_2): \|z_1 A_1 + z_2 A_2 \|_{\rm Op} < 1 \}$ for some pair of $2\times 2$ matrices $A_1, A_2$.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7900/jot.2018jun13.2225
Keywords: contractive and completely contractive linear maps, test functions

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