Fock space techniques in tensor algebras of directed graphs (Q2270577)

The Sz.-Nagy--Foias dilation theory and the commutant lifting theorem techniques opened a large spectrum of generalizations and applications in various branches of mathematics and connected areas. The generalizations to Fock spaces proved to be a very useful and natural one. In this paper, using Fock space techniques in tensor algebras of Dirichlet graphs, generalizations of known facts and also new ones are obtained. The paper is a nice, well written study on the topic, the reader having the possibility to be initiated in the problem and led to new results. Through the four sections of the paper, some historical dates can be found as well as a presentation of various facts and generalizations obtained in various contexts. Starting from some previous results, especially obtained in collaboration with \textit{G.\,Popescu} [Isr.\ J.\ Math.\ 115, 205--234 (2000; Zbl 0967.47045); Houston J.~Math.\ 25, No.\,1, 79--98 (1999; Zbl 0967.47046)], using Fock space techniques, a lot of nice results are found and connections with various previous results are studied. After an interesting introduction, in the second section of the paper, some background material is presented and Poisson kernels for \(C^*\)-correspondences are defined, using Popescu's results on Poisson kernels. The reader finds here a nice presentation of tensor products and \(C^*\)-correspondences over a \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\), examples of Fock modules and Fock representations, induced representations, Poisson kernels, noncommutative algebras on Fock spaces, Hilbert modules, the study containing generalizations of known facts and new ones, too. The third part is a study on non-selfadjoint algebras generated by finite directed graphs. \(C^*\)-correspondences of directed graphs, full Fock space representations, Poisson kernels and von Neumann inequalities are studied. Also, intertwining spaces and commutant lifting theorems are studied using Fock space techniques to characterize the maps that intertwine the left creation operators of two induced representations. Assuming that the graph has no sinks, a Hilbert module formulation is obtained. In the last section of the paper, weighted graphs are defined, starting from the author's obtained results on weighted Fock spaces. Using Fock space techniques, it is shown that the results obtained in the previous section of the paper apply to weighted graphs.