Algebras of almost periodic functions with Bohr-Fourier spectrum in a semigroup: Hermite property and its applications (Q960543)

Let \(\mathcal{R}\) be a ring. An ordered \(n\)-tuple \((a_1,\dots,a_n)\) of elements of \(\mathcal{R}\) is called unimodular, if there exist \(b_1,\dots,b_n\in\mathcal{R}\) such that \(a_1b_1+\cdots+a_nb_n=e\). A ring \(\mathcal{R}\) is called an Hermite ring if every unimodular row can be complemented; in other words, given elements \(a_1, \dots,a_m\in\mathcal{R}\) that generate \(\mathcal{R}\) as an ideal, there exist \(m\times m\) matrices \(F\) and \(G\) with entries in \(\mathcal{R}\) such that \(a_1,\dots,a_m\) form the first row of \(F\) and \(FG=I\). In this paper the authors prove that the unital Banach algebra of almost periodic functions of several variables with Bohr-Fourier spectrum in a given additive semigroup is an Hermite ring. As applications of the Hermite property of these algebras, the authors study factorizations of Wiener-Hopf type of rectangular matrix functions and the Toeplitz corona problem in the context of almost periodic functions of several variables.