Rational dilation of tetrablock contractions revisited

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2019.108275MaRDI QIDQ6322665arXivFDO

Authors Joseph A. Ball, Haripada Sau

Publication date 25 July 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hardy spaces (30H10) Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68) Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Canonical models for contractions and nonselfadjoint linear operators (47A45)

Abstract: A classical result of Sz.-Nagy asserts that a Hilbert-space contraction operator $T$ can be lifted to an isometry $V$. A more general multivariable setting of recent interest for these ideas is the case where (i) the unit disk is replaced by a certain domain contained in ${mathbbC}^3$ (called the {em tetrablock}), (ii) the contraction operator $T$ is replaced by a commutative triple $(T_1,T_2,T)$ of Hilbert-space operators having $mathbbE$ as a spectral set (a tetrablock contraction) . The rational dilation question for this setting is whether a tetrablock contraction $(T_1,T_2,T)$ can be lifted to a tetrablock isometry $(V_1,V_2,V)$ (a commutative operator tuple which extends to a tetrablock-unitary tuple $(U_1,U_2,U)$---a commutative tuple of normal operators with joint spectrum contained in the distinguished boundary of the tetrablock). We discuss necessary conditions for a tetrablock contraction to have a tetrablock-isometric lift. We present an example of a tetrablock contraction which does have a tetrablock-isometric lift but violates a condition previously thought to be necessary for the existence of such a lift. Thus the question of whether a tetrablock contraction always has a tetrablock-isometric lift appears to be unresolved at this time.

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