The positive contractive part of a noncommutative \(L^{p}\)-space is a complete Jordan invariant (Q512046): Difference between revisions

\textit{R. V. Kadison} [Ann. Math. (2) 56, 494--503 (1952; Zbl 0047.35703)] showed that several partial structures of a von Neumann algebra \(M\) can recover the von Neumann algebra up to Jordan \(*\)-isomorphisms. In this paper, the authors show that the positive part of the closed unit ball of a noncommutative \(L^p\)-space \((1\leq p\leq\infty)\), as a metric space, is a complete Jordan \(*\)-invariant for the underlying von Neumann algebra.