Normal contractive projections preserve type

Abstract

Given a JBW*-triple Z and a normal contractive projection P on Z, we show that the (Murray-von Neumann) type of each summand of P(Z) is dominated by the type of Z.

26 pages, latex, submitted in July 2001

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