Projective tensor products of C*-algebras.
In a recent paper, Carlson, Foiaş, Williams and the author proved that isometric Hilbert modules are projective in the category of Hilbert modules similar to contractive ones. In this paper, a simple proof, based on a strengthened lifting theorem, is given. The proof also applies to an equivalent theorem of Foiaş and Williams on similarity to a contraction of a certain 2 × 2 operator matrix.
We describe the behavior of ideal variations under interpolation methods associated to polygons.
For 0 ≤ α < 1, an operator U ∈ L(X,Y) is called a rank α operator if implies Uxₙ → Ux in norm. We give some results on rank α operators, including an interpolation result and a characterization of rank α operators U: C(T,X) → Y in terms of their representing measures.