Contractively complemented subspaces of pre-symmetric spaces

Publication date: 5 February 2008

Abstract: In 1965, Ron Douglas proved that if

X

is a closed subspace of an

L^{1}

-space and

X

is isometric to another

L^{1}

-space, then

X

is the range of a contractive projection on the containing

L^{1}

-space. In 1977 Arazy-Friedman showed that if a subspace

X

of

C_{1}

is isometric to another

C_{1}

-space (possibly finite dimensional), then there is a contractive projection of

C_{1}

onto

X

. In 1993 Kirchberg proved that if a subspace

X

of the predual of a von Neumann algebra

M

is isometric to the predual of another von Neumann algebra, then there is a contractive projection of the predual of

M

onto

X

. We widen significantly the scope of these results by showing that if a subspace

X

of the predual of a

J B W^{*}

-triple

A

is isometric to the predual of another

J B W^{*}

-triple

B

, then there is a contractive projection on the predual of

A

with range

X

, as long as

B

does not have a direct summand which is isometric to a space of the form

L^{i} n f t y (O m e g a, H)

, where

H

is a Hilbert space of dimension at least two. The result is false without this restriction on

B

.

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