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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We develop a symbol calculus for normal bimodule maps over a masa that is the natural analogue of the Schur product theory. Using this calculus we are easily able to give a complete description of the ranges of contractive normal bimodule idempotents that avoids the theory of ${{\text{J}}^{*}}$-algebras. We prove that if
$P$ is a normal bimodule idempotent and
$\left\| P \right\|\,<\,2/\sqrt{3}$ then
$P$ is a contraction. We finish with some attempts at extending the symbol calculus to non-normal maps.