Presents an important open problem on operator algebras in a style accessible to young researchers or Ph.D. students.

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An introduction to the theory of operator spaces, emphasising applications to C*-algebras.

This is the first ever truly introductory text to the theory of tensor products of Banach spaces. Coverage includes a full treatment of the Grothendieck theory

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