We give an equivalent expression for the K-functional associated to the pair of operator spaces (R,C) formed by the rows and columns respectively. This yields a description of the real interpolation spaces for the pair (Mₙ(R),Mₙ(C)) (uniformly over n). More generally, the same result is valid when Mₙ (or B(ℓ₂)) is replaced by any semi-finite von Neumann algebra. We prove a version of the non-commutative Khintchine inequalities (originally due to Lust-Piquard) that is valid for the Lorentz spaces...

The present article is a survey of known results on Schur and operator multipliers. It starts with the classical description of Schur multipliers due to Grothendieck, followed by a discussion of measurable Schur multipliers and a generalisation of Grothendieck's Theorem due to Peller. Thereafter, a non-commutative version of Schur multipliers, called operator multipliers and introduced by Kissin and Schulman, is discussed, and a characterisation extending the description in the commutative case...

Relations between spectral synthesis in the Fourier algebra A(G) of a compact group G and the concept of operator synthesis due to Arveson have been studied in the literature. For an A(G)-submodule X of VN(G), X-synthesis in A(G) has been introduced by E. Kaniuth and A. Lau and studied recently by the present authors. To any such X we associate a $V^{\infty }\left(G\right)$-submodule X̂ of ℬ(L²(G)) (where $V^{\infty }\left(G\right)$ is the weak-* Haagerup tensor product $L^{\infty }\left(G\right){\otimes }_{w*h}{L}^{\infty }\left(G\right)$), define the concept of X̂-operator synthesis and prove that a closed set E...

We consider two operator space versions of type and cotype, namely $S_p$-type, $S_q$-cotype and type (p,H), cotype (q,H) for a homogeneous Hilbertian operator space H and 1 ≤ p ≤ 2 ≤ q ≤ ∞, generalizing “OH-cotype 2” of G. Pisier. We compute type and cotype of some Hilbertian operator spaces and $L_p$ spaces, and we investigate the relationship between a homogeneous Hilbertian space H and operator spaces with cotype (2,H). As applications we consider operator space versions of generalized little Grothendieck’s...