Composition operators and endomorphisms

. Our analysis, which is based on work of R. Rochberg and J. McDonald, will wind its way through the theory of composition operators on spaces of analytic functions to recent work on Cuntz families of isometries and Hilbert

C^{*}

-modules.

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Let \(\phi\) be a function in \(L^{\infty}(\mathbb{T})\). Denote by \(\pi(\phi)\) the multiplication operator on \(L^2(\mathbb{T})\) determined by \(\phi\) and by \(\tau(\phi)\) the Toeplitz operator on \(H^2(\mathbb{T})\) determined by \(\phi\). Let \(b\) be an inner function. The map \(\phi \rightarrow \phi \circ b\) induces a \(*\)-endomorphism \(\beta\) of \(L^{\infty}(\mathbb{T})\). In the paper under review, the authors describe all \(*\)-endomorphisms \(\alpha_+\) of \(B(H^2(\mathbb{T}))\) which satisfy \[ \alpha_+ \circ \tau=\tau\circ \beta. \] They also describe all \(*\)-endomorphisms \(\alpha\) of \(B(L^2(\mathbb{T}))\) which satisfy \[ \alpha \circ \pi=\pi\circ \beta, \] under the assumption that \(b\) is a finite Blascke product. In their approach, they use ideas of \textit{R. Rochberg} [Pac. J. Math. 44, 337--354 (1973; Zbl 0257.46071)] and \textit{J. N. McDonald} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 131, No. 2, 601--606 (2003; Zbl 1045.47019)] and link the theory of composition operators to recent work in operator algebras.

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