Extremal Positive Semidefinite Forms.
We characterize all the extreme points of the unit ball in the space of trilinear forms on the Hilbert space . This answers a question posed by R. Grząślewicz and K. John [7], who solved the corresponding problem for the real Hilbert space . As an application we determine the best constant in the inequality between the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and the norm of trilinear forms.
We characterize linear operators that preserve sets of matrix ordered pairs which satisfy extreme properties with respect to maximal column rank inequalities of matrix sums over semirings.