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Completely positive


In mathematics, Choi's theorem on completely positive maps (after Man-Duen Choi) is a result that classifies completely positive maps between finite-dimensional (matrix) C*-algebras. An infinite-dimensional algebraic generalization of Choi's theorem is known as Belavkin's "Radon–Nikodym" theorem for completely positive maps.

We observe that if

then E=E* and E2=nE, so E=n−1EE* which is positive. Therefore CΦ =(In ⊗ Φ)(E) is positive by the n-positivity of Φ.

This holds trivially.

This mainly involves chasing the different ways of looking at Cnm×nm:

Let the eigenvector decomposition of CΦ be

where the vectors lie in Cnm . By assumption, each eigenvalue is non-negative so we can absorb the eigenvalues in the eigenvectors and redefine so that


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