Noncommutative Lp structure encodes exactly Jordan structure

We show that noncommutative $L_p$-spaces satisfy the axioms of the (nonunital) operator system with a dominating constant $2^{1 \over p}$. Therefore, noncommutative $L_p$-spaces can be embedded into $B(H)$ $2^{1 \over p}$-completely isomorphically and complete order isomorphically.

Let $\mathcal{L}(H)$ be the $*$-algebra of all bounded operators on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space $H$ and let $(\mathcal{I}, \|\cdot\|_{\mathcal{I}})$ be an ideal in $\mathcal{L}(H)$ equipped with a Banach norm which is distinct from the Schatten-von Neumann ideal $\mathcal{L}_p(\mathcal{H})$, $1\leq p<2$. We prove that $\mathcal{I}$ isomorphically embeds into an $L_p$-space $\mathcal{L}_p(\mathcal{R}),$ $1\leq p<2,$ (here, $\mathcal{R}$ is the hyperfinite II$_1$-fact...

Let $\M$ be a semi-finite von Neumann algebra equipped with a faithful normal trace $\tau$. We study the subspace structures of non-commutative Lorentz spaces $L_{p,q}(\M, \tau)$, extending results of Carothers and Dilworth to the non-commutative settings. In particular, we show that, under natural conditions on indices, $\ell_p$ can not be embedded into $L_{p,q}(\M, \tau)$. As applications, we prove that for $0<p<\infty$ with $p \neq 2$ then $\ell_p$ cannot be strongly embed...

We prove that every surjective isometry between the unit spheres of two von Neumann algebras admits a unique extension to a surjective real linear isometry between these two algebras.

In this note we collect some significant contributions on metric invariants for complex Banach algebras and Jordan--Banach algebras established during the last fifteen years. This note is mainly expository, but it also contains complete proofs and arguments, which in many cases are new or have been simplified. We have also included several new results. The common goal in the results is to seek for "natural" subsets, $\mathfrak{S}_{A},$ associated with each complex Banach or J...

Let $G$ and $H$ be locally compact groups. We will show that each contractive Jordan isomorphism $\Phi\colon L^1(G)\to L^1(H)$ is either an isometric isomorphism or an isometric anti-isomorphism. We will apply this result to study isometric two-sided zero product preservers on group algebras and, further, to study local and approximately local isometric automorphisms of group algebras.

We show that a reflexive subspace of the predual of a von Neumann algebra embeds into a noncommutative Lp space for some p>1. This is a noncommutative version of Rosenthal's result for commutative Lp spaces. Similarly for 1 < q < 2, an infinite dimensional subspace X of a noncommutative Lq space either contains lq or embeds in Lp for some q < p < 2. The novelty in the noncommutative setting is a double sided change of density.

In this paper we characterize surjective isometries on certain classes of non-commutative spaces associated with semi-finite von Neumann algebras: the Lorentz spaces $L^{w,1}$, as well as the spaces $L^1+L^\infty$ and $L^1\cap L^\infty$. The technique used in all three cases relies on characterizations of the extreme points of the unit balls of these spaces. Of particular interest is that the representations of isometries obtained in this paper are global representations.

Let A and A' be two Cstar-algebras with identities I_A and I_A', respectively, and P_1 and P_2 = I_A - P_1 nontrivial projections in A. In this paper we study the characterization of multiplicative star-Lie-Jordan-type maps, where the notion of these maps arise here. In particular, if M_A is a von Neumann algebra relative Cstar-algebra A without central summands of type I_1 then every bijective unital multiplicative star-Lie-Jordan-type maps are star-ring isomorphisms.

This article, addressed to a general audience of functional analysts, is intended to be an illustration of a few basic principles from `noncommutative functional analysis', more specifically the new field of {\em operator spaces.} In our illustration we show how the classical characterization of (possibly non-surjective) isometries between function algebras generalizes to operator algebras. We give some variants of this characterization, and a new proof which has some advanta...