A Separable Hilbertian Operator Space with CBAP and No Completely Bounded Basis

Abstract

Liu and Ruan showed that a separable operator space has the completely bounded approximation property if and only if it admits a completely bounded frame. We show that, even for Hilbertian operator spaces, such a frame need not give rise to a completely bounded basis. More precisely, we construct a separable Hilbertian operator space with the $1$-CBAP but with no completely bounded basis. Our construction relies on a theorem of Oikhberg that provides a structural description of the completely bounded maps on a suitable operator space.