Composition operators on noncommutative Hardy spaces

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2010.09.012MaRDI QIDQ621832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 28 January 2011

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0162

compact operator composition operator creation operator Fock space free holomorphic function free pluriharmonic function noncommutative Hardy space noncommutative variety similarity spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative function spaces (46L52) Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Linear composition operators (47B33)

Abstract: In this paper we initiate the study of composition operators on the noncommutative Hardy space

. Several classical results about composition operators (boundedness, norm estimates, spectral properties, compactness, similarity) have free analogues in our noncommutative multivariable setting. The most prominent feature of this paper is the interaction between the noncommutative analytic function theory in the unit ball of

B (c H)^{n}

, the operator algebras generated by the left creation operators on the full Fock space with

n

generators, and the classical complex function theory in the unit ball of

C C^{n}

.

Review text

Let \(B(\mathcal H)\) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space \(\mathcal H\). The algebra \(H_{\mathbf{ball}}\) of free holomorphic functions on the open operatorial \(n\)-ball of radius one is defined as the set of all power series \(\sum_{\alpha\in\mathbb F^+_n}a_{\alpha}Z^{\alpha}\) with complex coefficients \(a_\alpha\) and radius of convergence \(\geq 1\). \(\mathbb F^+_n\) denotes the free semigroup with \(n\) generators \(g_1,\dots,g_n\) and the identity \(g_0\). The length \(|\alpha|\) is defined in a standard way. If \(\alpha=g_{i_1}\dots g_{i_k}\) and \((X_1,\dots,X_n)\in B({\mathcal H})^n\), we denote \(X_\alpha=X_{i_1}\dots X_{i_k}\) and \(X_{g_0}=I_{\mathcal H}\). A free holomorphic function on the open ball \[ \left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1=\left\{(X_1,\dots,X_n)\in B({\mathcal H})^n: \|X_1X_1^*+\dots+X_nX_n^*\|^{1/2}<1\right\}, \] is the representation of \(f\in H_{\mathbf{ball}}\) on the Hilbert space \(\mathcal H\), i.e., the map \[ \left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\ni (X_1,\dots,X_n)\mapsto f(X_1,\dots,X_n)= \sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{|\alpha|=k} a_\alpha X_\alpha\in B({\mathcal H}), \] where convergence is in the operator norm topology. The free holomorphic function is identified with its representation on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. If \(f: \left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\rightarrow B({\mathcal H})\) and \(\varphi: \left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\rightarrow \left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\) are free holomorphic functions, then \(f\circ \varphi\) is a free holomorphic function defined on \(\left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\) by \[ (f\circ \varphi)(X_1,\dots,X_n)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{|\alpha|=k} a_\alpha \varphi(X_1,\dots,X_n), \] where convergence is in the operator norm topology. The noncommutative Hardy space \(H^2_{\mathbf{ball}}\) is the Hilbert space of all free holomorphic functions on \(\left[B({\mathcal H})^n\right]_1\) of the form \[ f(X_1,\dots,X_n)= \sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{|\alpha|=k} a_\alpha X_\alpha, \quad \sum_{\alpha\in{\mathbb F}^+_n}|\alpha|^2<1, \] with the inner product \(\langle f,g\rangle=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{|\alpha|=k} a_\alpha\overline{b}_\alpha\), where \(g= \sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{|\alpha|=k} b_\alpha X_\alpha\) is another free holomorphic function in \(H^2_{\mathbf{ball}}\). The paper is devoted to study the composition operator \(C_\varphi f=f\circ \varphi\) on the Hardy space \(H^2_{\mathbf{ball}}\). The author treats, in the realm of the free holomorphic functions, the following topics: the Littlewood subordination principle, estimates for the norm of \(C_\varphi\), similarity to contractions, Wolff's theorem, compactness, Schröder type equation, and composition operators on Fock spaces associated to noncommutative varieties. The obtained results are counterparts of theorems in the classical theory of composition operators.

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