Commutativity of the Haagerup tensor product and base change for operator modules

Abstract

By computing the completely bounded norm of the flip map on the Haagerup tensor product [Formula: see text] associated to a pair of continuous mappings of locally compact Hausdorff spaces [Formula: see text], we establish a simple characterization of the Beck-Chevalley condition for base change of operator modules over commutative [Formula: see text]-algebras, and a descent theorem for continuous fields of Hilbert spaces.