We show that the notion of
asymptotic lift generalizes naturally to normal positive maps ϕ : M → M acting on
von Neumann algebras M. We focus on cases in which the domain of the asymptotic
lift can be embedded as an operator subsystem M∞⊆ M and characterize when M∞
is a Jordan subalgebra of M in terms of the asymptotic multiplicative properties of
ϕ.
Keywords
von Neumann algebras, positive maps, ergodic theory,
asymptotic lifts