Bounded linear operators between \(C^*\)-algebras (Q1320621)

The authors prove ``higher degree'' versions of Grothendieck inequalities for bounded linear operators between \(C^*\)-algebras which in degree one were first conjectured by Ringrose and established by the second named author [J. Funct. Anal. 29, 397-415 (1978; Zbl 0388.46043)]. These are applied to compute the norm of random series with coefficients in a noncommutative \(L_ 1\)-space, and to elucidate the relation between completely bounded linear projections from \(B(H)\) onto a subspace \(S\) and the bounded linear projections from \(B(\ell_ 2)\otimes B(H)\) onto \(B(\ell_ 2)\otimes S\). If \(S\) is weak-\(*\)-closed a completely bounded linear projection from \(B(H)\) onto \(S\) is shown to exist iff there is a bounded linear projection from \(B(\ell_ 2\otimes H)\) onto the weak-\(*\)- closure \(B(\ell_ 2)\overline{\otimes} S\) of \(B(\ell_ 2)\otimes S\) in \(B(\ell_ 2\otimes H)\). In particular, they prove that this is not the case for the von Neumann algebra \(VN(F_ n)\) associated to the free group of \(n\geq 2\) generators. This implies that \(VN(F_ n)\) is not a complemented subspace of \(B(H)\).