Characterisations of dilations via approximants, expectations, and functional calculi (Q6050978)

The author in the paper under review considered characterisations of unitary dilations and approximations of irreversible classical dynamical systems on a Hilbert space. In the first part of this paper, he characterises the simultaneous regular unitary dilatability of commuting families of \(C_0\)-semigroups via the dilatability of such approximants as well as via regular polynomial bounds. In the second part, classical dynamical systems more broadly described by homomorphisms defined over topological monoids are considered. In particular, characterisations of unitary and regular unitary dilations via two distinct functional calculi are given. Applying these tools to a large class of classical dynamical systems, these two notions of dilation exactly characterise when a system admits unitary approximations under certain distinct notions of weak convergence. This establishes a sharp topological distinction between the two notions of unitary dilations. These results are applicable to commutative systems as well as noncommutative systems satisfying the canonical commutation relations (CCR) in the Weyl form.