Bilinear operator multipliers into the trace class (Q785854)

Let \(H_1\), \(H_2\) and \(H_3\) be Hilbert spaces. The authors consider bilinear maps from the Cartesian product \(S_2(H_2, H_3) \times S_2(H_1, H_2)\) of spaces of Hilbert-Schmidt operators, valued in either the space \(B(H_1, H_3)\) of bounded operators, or in the space \(S_1(H_1, H_3)\) of trace class operators. Modular properties of such maps are introduced with respect to the commutants of von Neumann algebras \(M_i \subset B(H_i)\), \(i =1, 2, 3\), and an appropriate notion of complete boundedness for such maps is given. Several other characterisations are also proved.