nLab W. Forrest Stinespring

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Selected writings

Introducing what later came to be known as the Kraus decomposition of quantum operations:

• W. Forrest Stinespring, Positive functions on $C^\ast$-algebras, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 2 (1955) 211-216 [doi:2032342, doi:10.2307/2032342]

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