The unit ball of an injective operator space has an extreme point

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Abstract: We define an AW∗-TRO as an off-diagonal corner of an AW∗-algebra, and show that the unit ball of an AW∗-TRO has an extreme point. In particular, the unit ball of an injective operator space has an extreme point, which answers a question raised in the author's previous work [Journal of Operator Theory, 76(2) (2016), 219-248] affirmatively. We also show that an AW∗-TRO (respectively, an injective operator space) has an ideal decomposition, that is, it can be decomposed into the direct sum of a left ideal, a right ideal, and a two-sided ideal in an AW∗-algebra (respectively, an injective C∗-algebra). In particular, we observe that AW∗-TRO, hence an injective operator space, has an algebrization which admits a quasi-identity.


An operator space \(X\) is called a triple system or a ternary ring of operators (TRO) if there exists a complete isometry \(\iota\) from \(X\) into a \(C^*\)-algebra such that \(\iota(x) \iota(y)^* \iota(z) \subset \iota(X)\) for all \(x, y, z\in X\). \textit{Z.-J. Ruan} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 315, No. 1, 89--104 (1989; Zbl 0669.46029)] and \textit{M. Hamana} [Math. J. Toyama Univ. 22, 77--93 (1999; Zbl 0948.46045)] proved in two independent papers that an operator space \(X\) is injective if and only if it is an off-diagonal corner of an injective \(C^*\)-algebra, that is, there exist an injective \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\) and two projections (self-adjoint idempotents) \(p, q\in A\) such that \(X\) is completely isometric to \(pAq\). In particular, an injective operator space is a TRO. Motivated by the fact that every injective \(C^*\)-algebra is monotone complete and hence an \(AW^*\)-algebra, the author considers the notion of an \(AW^*\)-TRO. An operator space \(X\) is an \(AW^*\)-TRO if there exist an \(AW^*\)-algebra \(A\) and projections \(p, q\in A\) such that \(X\) is completely isometric to \(pAq\). The main result of the paper under review shows that the unit ball of an \(AW^*\)-TRO contains an extreme point. In particular, the unit ball of an injective operator space has an extreme point, which gives a positive answer to a question posed by the same author in [J. Oper. Theory 76, No. 2, 219--248 (2016; Zbl 1389.47182)]. This result closes a natural and interesting question in the theory of operator spaces.











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