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Pairs of Commuting Pure Contractions and Isometric dilation

Functional Analysis 2021-05-19 v3 Complex Variables Operator Algebras

Abstract

A particular case of the fundamental Sz.-Nagy--Foias functional model for a contraction states that a pure contraction always dilates to a pure isometry. We are interested in the similar question for pairs, more precisely: does a pair of commuting pure contractions always dilate to a pair of commuting pure isometries? The purpose of this article is to identify pairs of commuting pure contractions for which the above question has an affirmative answer. Our method is based on an explicit structure of isometric dilation for pure pairs of commuting contractions obtained in a recent work by Das, Sarkar and the author.

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@article{arxiv.2105.03051,
  title  = {Pairs of Commuting Pure Contractions and Isometric dilation},
  author = {Srijan Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03051},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

23 pages, some minor corrections. Proposition 3.2 has been added and Corollary 3.3 has been revised