1. Introduction
The theory of operator spaces is very recent. It was developed after Ruan’s thesis (1988) by Effros and Ruan and Blecher and Paulsen and Pisier.
Theorem (Ruan) in [1] suppose that
is a vector space, and that for each
we are given a norm
on
. Then
is completely isometrically linearly isomorphic to a subspace of
, for some Hilbert space
, if and only if conditions (R1) and (R2) above hold.
R1:
R2:
.
In this new category, the objects remain Banach spaces but the morphisms become the completely bounded maps. In fact, the completely bounded maps appeared in the early 1980s following Stinespring’s pioneering work (1955) and Arveson’s fundamental results (1969) on completely positive maps see [1] -[4] .
Definition 1 Let
and
be operator spaces and that
be a linear map. For a positive integer
, we write
for the associated map
from
to
. This is often called the (nth) amplification of
, and may also be thought of as the map
on
. A map
is completely bounded (in short c.b.) if

We denote by
the Banach space of all c.b. maps from
into
equipped with the c.b. norm. If
is c.b. map, we have

and

The notion of isomorphism is replaced by that of “complete isomorphism”. If
is a completely bounded linear bijection, and if its inverse is completely bounded too, then we say that
is complete isomorphism. In this case, we say that
and
are completely isomorphic and we write “
as operator spaces”. Similarly, if
is an isometry for any
, then we say that
is complete isometry. We often identify two operator spaces
and
if they are completely isometrically isomorphic. In this case we often write “
as operator spaces”.
In 1932 [5] , Mazur and Ulam got the famous theorem that a surjective isometry between two real normed spaces must be linear up to translation, which started the study of the theory of isometry. Many researchers have tried to generalize it. In 1972 Mankiewicz [6] considered the extension problem for isometries and every surjective isometry between the open connected subsets of two normed spaces can be extended to a surjective affine isometry on the whole space. This result can be seen as local Mazur-Ulam Theorem. From this result, we get easily that a map’s property on unit ball of a normed space determines the relationship between distance preserving and linearity. In 1987, D.Tingley raised the following problem (the isometric extension problem) in [7] :
Problem. Suppose that
is a surjective isometric mapping, does there exist a linear isometric mapping
such that
?
D. Tingley, who is the first one to study the problem, gave some results in [7] under the condition that
and
are finite dimensional spaces. More precisely, the answer can be formulated as follows: Suppose that
is a surjective isometric mapping, then
, i.e.
is an odd mapping. In the complex spaces, the answer to Tingleys problem is negative. For example, we take
(complex plane) and
. Some affirmative results have been obtained between classical real Banach spaces, which had been shown in [8] -[12] . The recent development on this problem you can find in [13] . We ask can we discuss the isometric extension problem in operator space category? Through example, we give some results on it.
2. Some Examples about Isometric Extension Problem on Operator Spaces
Theorem Let
be
(resp.
,
,
,
,
, etc.). Let
be a
-Lip operator. Then
can be extended to a linearly complete isometry on
.
Proof. By [11] ,
can be linearly extended to the whole Hilbert space. Since
are homogeneous operator space, the the result can be got directly.
How about the result on non-homogeneous operator spaces?
Theorem There exists an isometry
such that there is no complete isometry
on the whole space
satisfying
.
Proof. Let
be the basis of
. To express conveniently, we denote
to be the basis of the n-dimensional column Hilbert operator space
and
be the basis of the n-dimensional row Hilbert operator space
. Then
constructs a basis of
. Give the
elements an order defined as

Let
,
and
maps other elements
of the basis to
. So
forms a permutation among the basis of
. By the isometric theory on Hilbert space,
is an isometry on the Banach space
. Of course let
is an isometry between unit sphere of
. But
is not complete isometry on
.
Indeed, for
where

Then

It is easy to calculate that
but
. So
is not complete isometry.
3. On Stability of (-Isometries of Operator Spaces
The study on the stability of ò-isometry is from Banach Space Theory.
Let
be two Banach spaces and
. A mapping
is said to be an ò-isometry provided

In 1945, Hyers and Ulam proposed the following question: whether for every surjective ò-isometry
with
there exist a surjective linear isometry
and
such that
After many efforts of a number of mathematicians (see, for instance [14] -[19] ) Omladi
and
emrl gave the sharp estimate that
in 1995 (see [20] ).
In this section, we ask whether we can discuss the the stability of ò-isometry in operator space category? We try to propose a question and give a little answer.
Firstly, we get the following result.
Theorem Let
and
be operator spaces. If a mapping
satisfies that for any
,

then
is an isometry.
Proof. For any
,
Let
. Specially, we put
, then
and we have

Since

we get 
So
holds for any
.
is an isometry.
Acknowledgements
A part of this work was completed when I visited the University of Illinois, Urbana. I would like to thank Professor Zhong-Jin Ruan for the invitation and great help.
The author also expresses his appreciation to Dr. Liu Rui for many very helpful comments regarding the stability of ò-isometry in operator space category.
Funding
This work is supported by the NSFC grant 11101220, 11271199 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.