TY - JOUR ID - Gheondea2009 LB - Gheondea2009 AU - Gheondea, Aurelian AU - Kavruk, Ali Şamil TI - A note on Radon-Nikodým derivatives and similarity for completely bounded maps ST - A note on Radon-Nikodým derivatives and similarity for completely bounded maps JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2009 VL - 29 IS - 2 SP - 139 EP - 145 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.2.139 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.2.139 AB - We point out a relation between the Arveson's Radon-Nikodým derivative and known similarity results for completely bounded maps. We also consider Jordan type decompositions coming out from Wittstock's Decomposition Theorem and illustrate, by an example, the nonuniqueness of these decompositions. KW - Radon-Nikodým derivative KW - \(C^*\)-algebra KW - completely positive map KW - similarity SN - 1232-9274 ER -