%0 Journal Article %T Positive definite hermitian mappings associated to tripotent elements %A Antonio M. Peralta %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X We give a simple proof of a meaningful result established by Y. Friedman and B. Russo in 1985, whose proof was originally based on strong holomorphic results. We provide a simple proof which is directly deduced from the axioms of JB*-triples with techniques of Functional Analysis. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5245v1