On boundary representations (Q6919150)

Boundary representations were defined by Arveson with intention to play the role of points in the Choquet boundary of an operator system \(S\). An irreducible representation \(\pi\) of a \(C^*\)-algebra \(\mathcal{A}\) generated by the system \(S\) is called a boundary representation if its restriction to \(S\) has a unique positive extension to \(\mathcal{A}\), namely~\(\pi\). A lot of studies were done in this sense in various settings obtaining irreducible representations, some of them being boundary. The purpose of this paper is to give an example showing that generally this is not the case (Theorem~2.1). The example is given constructing \(S\) as a system of operators on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\) of analytic functions on the open unit disc \(\mathbb{D}\) from the complex space \(\mathbb{C}\), assuming in addition that \(\mathcal{H}\) is a complete Pick space.