Non-Commutative Metrics on Matrix State Spaces

Abstract

We use the theory of quantization to introduce non-commutative versions of metric on state space and Lipschitz seminorm. We show that a lower semicontinuous matrix Lipschitz seminorm is determined by their matrix metrics on the matrix state spaces. A matrix metric comes from a lower semicontinuous matrix Lip-norm if and only if it is convex, midpoint balanced, and midpoint concave. The operator space of Lipschitz functions with a matrix norm coming from a closed matrix Lip-norm is the operator space dual of an operator space. They generalize Rieffel's results to the quantized situation.