On the residual parts of completely non-unitary contractions (Q1095369)

Based on the Sz.-Nagy-Foiaş functional model for completely non- unitary (c.n.u.) contractions on a separable Hilbert space, this paper gives a systematic study of the residual and *-residual parts of such contractions, and proves the reflexivity of certain \(C_{11}\) contractions. To be more precise, recall that the residual part R on space K of a c.n.u. contraction T on H is the unitary part in the Wold decomposition of the minimal isometric dilation of T; the *-residual part \(R_*\) on \(K_*\) is similarly defined in terms of \(T^*\). The paper starts by giving a representation for \(R_*\) in the functional model of T, and then considers a canonical operator X intertwining T and \(R_*\) and Y intertwining R and T. Here X (resp. Y) is the restriction to H (resp. K) of the orthogonal projection onto \(K_*\) (resp. H). The author studies various properties of X and Y such as when they are injective or have dense range, and relates these to properties of T. Samples: X is injective if and only if T can be mapped injectively into some unitary operator; Y has dense range if and only if some unitary operator can be mapped, with dense range, into T. Then the author defines the class of \(quasi\)-C\({}_{11}\) contractions, shows by an example that they properly contain \(C_{11}\) contractions, and concludes the paper by proving two reflexivity results, one for \(quasi\)-C\({}_{11}\) contractions and one for \(C_{11}\) contractions, under certain extra conditions.