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Curvature Inequalities and Extremal Operators

Functional Analysis 2019-11-13 v1

Abstract

A curvature inequality is established for contractive commuting tuples of operators in the Cowen-Douglas class of rank n. Properties of the extremal operators, that is, the operators which achieve equality, are investigated. Specifically, a substantial part of a well known question due to R. G. Douglas involving these extremal operators, in the case of the unit disc, is answered.

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@article{arxiv.1802.01386,
  title  = {Curvature Inequalities and Extremal Operators},
  author = {Gadadhar Misra and Md. Ramiz Reza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01386},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages

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