Free noncommutative hereditary kernels: Jordan decomposition, Arveson extension, kernel domination (Q2107287)

Summary: We discuss (i) a quantized version of the Jordan decomposition theorem for a complex Borel measure on a compact Hausdorff space, namely, the more general problem of decomposing a general noncommutative kernel (a quantization of the standard notion of kernel function) as a linear combination of completely positive noncommutative kernels (a quantization of the standard notion of positive definite kernel). Other special cases of (i) include: the problem of decomposing a general operator-valued kernel function as a linear combination of positive kernels (not always possible), of decomposing a general bounded linear Hilbert-space operator as a linear combination of positive linear operators (always possible), of decomposing a completely bounded linear map from a \(C^*\)-algebra \(\mathcal{A}\) to an injective \(C^*\)-algebra \(\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{Y})\) as a linear combination of completely positive maps from \(\mathcal{A}\) to \(\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{Y})\) (always possible). We also discuss (ii) a noncommutative kernel generalization of the Arveson extension theorem (any completely positive map \(\phi\) from an operator system \(\mathbb{S}\) to an injective \(C^*\)-algebra \(\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{Y})\) can be extended to a completely positive map \(\phi_e\) from a \(C^*\)-algebra containing \(\mathbb{S}\) to \(\mathcal{L}(\mathcal{Y}))\), and (iii) a noncommutative kernel version of a Positivstellensatz (i.e., finding a certificate to explain why one kernel is positive at points where another given kernel is strictly positive).