Several investigations have been done on positive maps on their algebraic structures with more emphasis on completely positive maps. In this study, we have described the structure of the Choi matrices for 2-positive maps on positive semidefinite matrices and the conditions for complete positivity of positive linear maps from n to n+1. The motivation behind these objectives is work done by Majewski and Marciniak on the structure of positive maps ф from Mn to Mn + 1(2 ≥ 2) between matrix algebras.
A map $ϕ:M_m(\bC)\to M_n(\bC)$ is decomposable if it is of the form
ϕ=ϕ1+ϕ2 where
ϕ1 is a CP map while
ϕ2 is a co-CP map. A partial characterization of decomposability for maps $ϕ: M_2(\bC) \to M_3(\bC)$ is given.
A map $\phi:M_m(\bC)\to M_n(\bC)$ is decomposable if it is of the form
ϕ=ϕ1+ϕ2 where
ϕ1 is a CP map while
ϕ2 is a co-CP map. It is known that if
m=n=2 then every positive map is decomposable. Given an extremal unital positive map $\phi:M_2(\bC)\to M_2(\bC)$ we construct concrete maps (not necessarily unital)
ϕ1 and
ϕ2 which give a decomposition of
ϕ. We also show that in most cases this decomposition is unique.
The purpose of this short note is to clarify and present a general version of an interesting observation by Piani and Mora (Physic. Rev. A 75, 012305 (2007)), linking complete positivity of linear maps on matrix algebras to decomposability of their ampliations. Let
Ai,
Ci be unital C*-algebras and let
αi be positive linear maps from
Ai to
Ci, i=1,2. We obtain conditions under which any positive map
β from the minimal C*-tensor product
A1⊗minA2 to
C1⊗minC2, such that $ α_1 \otimes α_2 \geq β$, factorizes as
β=γ⊗α2 for some positive map
γ. In particular we show that when
αi:Ai→B(Hi) are completely positive (CP) maps for some Hilbert spaces
Hi (i=1,2), and
α2 is a pure CP map and
β is a CP map so that
α1⊗α2−β is also CP, then
β=γ⊗α2 for some CP map
γ. We show that a similar result holds in the context of positive linear maps when
A2=C2=B(H) and
α2=id. As an application we extend \cite[IX Theorem]{PM}( revisited recently by Huber et al in \cite{HLLM}) to show that for any linear map
τ from a unital C*-algebra
A to a C*-algebra
C, if
τ⊗idk is decomposable for some
k≥2, where
idk is the identity map on the algebra
Mk(C) of
k×k matrices, then
τ is completely positive.
A map $ϕ:M_m(\bC)\to M_n(\bC)$ is decomposable if it is of the form
ϕ=ϕ1+ϕ2 where
ϕ1 is a CP map while
ϕ2 is a co-CP map. It is known that if
m=n=2 then every positive map is decomposable. Given an extremal unital positive map $ϕ:M_2(\bC)\to M_2(\bC)$ we construct concrete maps (not necessarily unital)
ϕ1 and
ϕ2 which give a decomposition of
ϕ. We also show that in most cases this decomposition is unique.