Absolute continuity for commuting row contractions

Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Functional calculus for linear operators (47A60)

Abstract: Absolutely continuous commuting row contractions admit a weak-

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continuous functional calculus. Building on recent work describing the first and second dual spaces of the closure of the polynomial multipliers on the Drury-Arveson space, we give a complete characterization of these commuting row contractions in measure theoretic terms. We also establish that completely non-unitary row contractions are necessarily absolutely continuous, in direct parallel with the case of a single contraction. Finally, we consider refinements of this question for row contractions that are annihilated by a given ideal.

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The paper under review studies the so-called absolutely continuous row contractions. The essential motivation comes on the one hand from Sz.-Nagy-Foiaş theory, and on the other hand from the theory of the Drury-Arveson \(d\)-shift. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE NEWLINERecall that a \(d\)-tuple \(T\) of commuting bounded linear Hilbert space operators \(T_1, \dots, T_d\) is a \textit{row contraction} if \(T_1T^*_1 + \dots + T_dT^*_d \leq I\), while a row contraction \(T\) is said to be \textit{absolutely continuous} if the functional calculus \(\phi \mapsto M_\phi\) extends to a weak*-continuous map on the multiplier algebra \(\mathcal M_d\). One of the main results (Theorem 3.2) describes all absolutely continuous row contractions:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE{Theorem.} If \(T\) is a commuting row contraction on a separable Hilbert space with the spherical unitary part \(U\) of its minimal co-extension, then the following are equivalent: {\parindent=0.7cm\begin{itemize}\item[(1)] \(T\) is absolutely continuous. \item[(2)] \(U\) is absolutely continuous. \item[(3)] The spectral measure of \(U\) is Henkin. NEWLINENEWLINE\end{itemize}} NEWLINEA substantial part of this paper is devoted to interesting decomposition results. For instance, it is proved that any row contraction can be decomposed into an absolutely continuous row contraction and a totally singular spherical unitary (Theorem 3.7). This result generalizes Theorem 1.5 of [\textit{J. Eschmeier}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 75, No. 1, 157--176 (1997; Zbl 0878.47001)] (cf.\ Theorem 4 of [\textit{A. Athavale}, J. Funct. Anal. 154, No. 1, 117--129, Art. No. FU973196 (1998; Zbl 0919.47006)]). In view of the dilation theorem of \textit{V. Müller} and \textit{F. H. Vasilescu} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 117, No. 4, 979--989 (1993; Zbl 0777.47009)], it is likely that many of these considerations have counterparts for the class of row \(\nu\)-hypercontractions.

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