THE OPERATOR HILBERT SPACE OH AND TYPE III VON NEUMANN ALGEBRAS (Q4824869)

Following \textit{G.~Pisier} and \textit{D.~Shlyakhtenko} [Invent. Math. 150, 185--217 (2002; Zbl 1033.46044)], the author shows that a map \(v\) from the operator Hilbert space \(OH\) to the predual \(M_*\) of a von Neumann algebra \(M\) is completely bounded (c.b.) iff there exists a normal state \(\phi\) on \(M\) and \(C > 0\) such that \(\| v^* x\| ^4 \leq \phi(x^* x) \phi(x x^*)\) for any \(x \in M\). This result is then used to prove that \(OH\) does not embed completely isomorphically into the predual of a semifinite von Neumann algebra. \textit{M.~Junge} [The projection constant of \(OH_n\) and the little Grothendieck inequality, preprint] showed that \(OH\) embeds completely isomorphically into the predual of an injective type \(III_\lambda\) von Neumann factor (a different proof is presented in \textit{G.~Pisier} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2004, 3983--4018 (2004; Zbl 1079.46041)]). This implies that the predual of an injective type \(III_\lambda\) von Neumann factor does not embed completely isomorphically into the predual of a semifinite von Neumann algebra. The main result of the paper under review has been subsumed by \textit{G. Pisier} [loc. cit.]. There, c.b. maps from \(R_q = (R, C)_{1/q}\) into \(M_*\) (as before, \(M\) is a von Neumann algebra) are described. It is then shown that \(R_q\) does not embed completely isomorphically into the predual of a semifinite von Neumann algebra. Moreover, a variation of M.~Junge's method shows that \(R_q\) does embed into the predual of an injective type \(III_\lambda\) von Neumann factor. Continuing the same line of inquiry, \textit{Q.~Xu} [Embeddings of \(C_q\) and \(R_q\) into noncommutative \(L_p\)-spaces, \(1 \leq p < q \leq 2\), preprint] showed that \(R_q\) embeds completely isomorphically into \(L_p(M)\), for \(q\) and \(p\) as above.