Contractive liftings and the commutator (Q1854672)

The authors of this excellent paper present a solution to a problem (posed by B. Sz.-Nagy in 1968) on extending the commutant lifting theorem to prove the following Theorem. Let \(H\), \(H'\) and \(K'\) be Hilbert spaces, \(A:H\rightarrow H'\) a contraction, \(T\) an isometry on \(H\), \(T'\) a contraction on \(H'\), and let \(U'\) on \(K'\) be an isometric lifting of \(T'\). Then there exists a contraction \(B:H\rightarrow K'\) such that \(P'B=A\) and \( U'B-BT \leq \sqrt{2} T'A-AT ^{\frac{1}{2}}.\)