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Blaschke-Singular-Outer factorization of free non-commutative functions

Functional Analysis 2020-02-05 v2

Abstract

By classical results of Herglotz and F. Riesz, any bounded analytic function in the complex unit disk has a unique inner-outer factorization. Here, a bounded analytic function is called \emph{inner} or \emph{outer} if multiplication by this function defines an isometry or has dense range, respectively, as a linear operator on the Hardy Space, H2H^2, of analytic functions in the complex unit disk with square-summable Taylor series. This factorization can be further refined; any inner function θ\theta decomposes uniquely as the product of a \emph{Blaschke inner} function and a \emph{singular inner} function, where the Blaschke inner contains all the vanishing information of θ\theta, and the singular inner factor has no zeroes in the unit disk. We prove an exact analog of this factorization in the context of the full Fock space, identified as the \emph{Non-commutative Hardy Space} of analytic functions defined in a certain multi-variable non-commutative open unit disk.

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@article{arxiv.2001.04496,
  title  = {Blaschke-Singular-Outer factorization of free non-commutative functions},
  author = {Michael T. Jury and Robert T. W. Martin and Eli Shamovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04496},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Updated and added references. Submitted version

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