Orthogonally additive polynomials on non-commutative $L^p$-spaces

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a von Neumann algebra with a normal semifinite faithful trace $τ$. We prove that every continuous $m$-homogeneous polynomial $P$ from $L^p(\mathcal{M},τ)$, with $0<p<\infty$, into each topological linear space $X$ with the property that $P(x+y)=P(x)+P(y)$ whenever $x$ and $y$ are mutually orthogonal positive elements of $L^p(\mathcal{M},τ)$ can be represented in the form $P(x)=Φ(x^m)$ $(x\in L^p(\mathcal{M},τ))$ for some continuous linear map $Φ\colon L^{p/m}(\mathcal{M},τ)\to X$.