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Minimal unitary dilations for commuting contractions

Functional Analysis 2024-01-22 v4 Operator Algebras

Abstract

For commuting contractions T1,,TnT_1,\dots ,T_n acting on a Hilbert space H\mathcal H with T=i=1nTiT=\prod_{i=1}^n T_i, we show that (T1,,Tn)(T_1, \dots, T_n) dilates to commuting isometries (V1,,Vn)(V_1, \dots , V_n) on the minimal isometric dilation space of TT with V=i=1nViV=\prod_{i=1}^n V_i being the minimal isometric dilation of TT if and only if (T1,,Tn)(T_1^*, \dots , T_n^*) dilates to commuting isometries (Y1,,Yn)(Y_1, \dots , Y_n) on the minimal isometric dilation space of TT^* with Y=i=1nYiY=\prod_{i=1}^n Y_i being the minimal isometric dilation of TT^*. Then, we prove an analogue of this result for unitary dilations of (T1,,Tn)(T_1, \dots , T_n) and its adjoint. We find a necessary and sufficient condition such that (T1,,Tn)(T_1, \dots , T_n) possesses a unitary dilation (W1,,Wn)(W_1, \dots , W_n) on the minimal unitary dilation space of TT with W=i=1nWiW=\prod_{i=1}^n W_i being the minimal unitary dilation of TT. We show an explicit construction of such a unitary dilation on both Scha¨\ddot{a}ffer and Sz. Nagy-Foias minimal unitary dilation spaces of TT. Also, we show that a relatively weaker hypothesis is necessary and sufficient for the existence of such a unitary dilation when TT is a C.0C._0 contraction, i.e. when Tn0{T^*}^n \rightarrow 0 strongly as nn \rightarrow \infty . We construct a different unitary dilation for (T1,,Tn)(T_1, \dots , T_n) when TT is a C.0C._0 contraction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.09093,
  title  = {Minimal unitary dilations for commuting contractions},
  author = {Sourav Pal and Prajakta Sahasrabuddhe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09093},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Revised, 32 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.11391

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