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arXiv:0906.0472

Mapping cones of positive maps

Erling Størmer

Published Jun 2, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

This is a revised form of the previous paper in which we study cones of positive maps of B(H) into itself. We add the result that the dual cone of a symmetric mapping cone is itself a symmetric mapping cone. As applications we obtain characterizations of linear functionals with strong positivity conditions with respect to a class of mapping cones called symmetric mapping cones. Applications are given to separable and PPT-states.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.0906.0472

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This is a revised form of the previous paper in which we study cones of positive maps of B(H) into itself. We add the result that the dual cone of a symmetric mapping cone is itself a symmetric mapping cone. As applications we obtain characterizations of linear functionals with strong positivity conditions with respect to a class of mapping cones called symmetric mapping cones. Applications are given to separable and PPT-states.
We study mapping cones of positive maps of B(H)B(H)B(H) into itself, i.e., cones which are closed under composition with completely positive maps. As applications we obtain characterizations of linear functionals with strong positivity properties with respect to so-called symmetric mapping cones, with special emphasis on separable and PPT states.
Let and let be the n-dimensional second-order cone, or Lorentz cone. A linear map M from to is called positive if M[Lm]⊂Ln . The set of positive maps forms a convex cone, the positive cone. Its dual cone, the separable cone, is the convex hull of tensor products x⊗y, where x∈Ln , y∈Lm . The structure of the positive and the separable cones is the subject of the present contribution. We study the action of the automorphism group of the positive cone and provide a complete classification of its orbits by constructing explicitly canonical forms. This enables us to identify and to classify the extreme rays of the positive cone, as well as their dual counterparts, the largest faces of the separable cone. We also characterize positive maps which are scalable to doubly stochastic ones.
In the finite-dimensional case, we present a new approach to the theory of cones with a mapping cone symmetry, first introduced by Stormer. Our method is based on a definition of an inner product in the space of linear maps between two algebras of operators and the fact that the Jamiolkowski-Choi isomorphism is an isometry. We consider a slightly modified class of cones, although not substantially different from the original mapping cones by Stormer. Using the new approach, several known results are proved faster and often in more generality than before. For example, the dual of a mapping cone turns out to be a mapping cone as well, without any additional assumptions. The main result of the paper is a characterization of cones with a mapping cone symmetry, saying that a given map is an element of such cone if and only if the composition of the map with the conjugate of an arbitrary element in the dual cone is completely positive. A similar result was known in the case where the map goes from an algebra of operators into itself and the cone is a symmetric mapping cone. Our result is proved without the additional assumptions of symmetry and equality between the domain and the target space. We show how it gives a number of older results as a corollary, including an exemplary application.
Drawing on results of Choi, Størmer and Woronowicz, we present a nearly complete characterization of certain important classes of positive maps. In particular, we construct a general class of positive linear maps acting between two matrix algebras ℬ( ) and ℬ( ), where and are finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. It turns out that elements of this class are characterized by operators from the dual cone of the set of all separable states on ℬ( ⊗ ). Subsequently, the relation between entanglements and positive maps is described. Finally, a new characterization of the cone ℬ( ) + ⊗ℬ( ) + is given.