On a family of linear maps from \(M_n(\mathbb{C})\) to \(M_{n^2}(\mathbb{C})\) (Q1654419)

The authors study the properties of maps satisfying equivariance on finite-dimensional matrix algebras and show how equivariance can help to detect positivity and \(k\)-positivity of linear maps. They present a family of linear maps \(\Phi_{\alpha, \beta, n}:M_n(\mathbb{C})\to M_{n^2}(\mathbb{C})\) with parameters \(\alpha \) and \(\beta \) which satisfy the equivariance property, and study the properties of positivity, complete positivity, 2-positivity and decomposability. The values of the parameters \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) for which the family of maps \(\Phi_{\alpha, \beta, n}\) is positive for any natural number \(n\geq 3\) and, in particular, the values of parameters \(\alpha \) and \(\beta \) for which the family of maps \(\Phi_{\alpha, \beta, 3}\) is 2-positive and not completely positive are determined. The authors also obtain a class of linear maps which is \((k-1)\)-positive and not \(k\)-positive for any natural numbers \(n>3\) and \(2\leq k\leq n\).