Couplings of operators with two-isometries in three-isometric liftings (Q6537097)

According to the Sz.-Nagy and Foias theory, every contraction \( T \) on a Hilbert space \( H \) has an isometric lifting \( S \) (and a unitary dilation) on a larger space \( K \). In 1995, Agler and Stankus initiated the study of \( m \)-isometries, proving, for instance, that every \( 2 \)-isometry has a Brownian unitary extension. The paper under review aims to continue the study of liftings for \( 3 \)-isometries, with a focus on the special class of liftings \( S \) that are \( 2 \)-isometries on their invariant subspace \( K \ominus H \) and also have this subspace invariant under \( S^*S \). Several characterizations of such operators \( T \) are obtained, including cases where the lifting \( S \) is expansive.