Contractivity and complete contractivity for finite dimensional Banach spaces

Abstract: Choose an arbitrary but fixed set of

n i m e s n

matrices

A_{1}, l d o t s, A_{m}

and let

O m e g a_{m} a t h b f A s u b s e t m a t h b b C^{m}

be the unit ball with respect to the norm

| c d o t |_{m a t h b f A},

where

| (z_{1}, l d o t s, z_{m}) |_{m a t h b f A} = | z_{1} A_{1} + c d o t s + z_{m} A_{m} |_{m o p} .

It is known that if

m g e q 3

and

m a t h b b B

is any ball in

m a t h b b C^{m}

with respect to some norm, say

| c d o t |_{m a t h b b B},

then there exists a contractive linear map

L : (m a t h b b C^{m}, | c d o t |_{m a t h b b B}^{*}) o m a t h c a l M_{k}

which is not completely contractive. The characterization of those balls in

m a t h b b C^{2}

for which contractive linear maps are always completely contractive thus remains open. We answer this question for balls of the form

O m e g a_{m} a t h b f A

in

m a t h b b C^{2} .

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