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Topological isomorphisms for some universal operator algebras

Operator Algebras 2015-10-08 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let IC[z1,...,zd]I \subset \mathbb C[z_1,...,z_d] be a radical homogeneous ideal, and let AI\mathcal A_I be the norm-closed non-selfadjoint algebra generated by the compressions of the dd-shift on Drury-Arveson space Hd2H^2_d to the co-invariant subspace Hd2IH^2_d \ominus I. Then AI\mathcal A_I is the universal operator algebra for commuting row contractions subject to the relations in II. We ask under which conditions are there topological isomorphisms between two such algebras AI\mathcal A_I and AJ\mathcal A_J? We provide a positive answer to a conjecture of Davidson, Ramsey and Shalit: AI\mathcal A_I and AJ\mathcal A_J are topologically isomorphic if and only if there is an invertible linear map AA on Cd\mathbb C^d which maps the vanishing locus of JJ isometrically onto the vanishing locus of II. Most of the proof is devoted to showing that finite algebraic sums of full Fock spaces over subspaces of Cd\mathbb C^d are closed. This allows us to show that the map AA induces a completely bounded isomorphism between AI\mathcal A_I and AJ\mathcal A_J.

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@article{arxiv.1204.1940,
  title  = {Topological isomorphisms for some universal operator algebras},
  author = {Michael Hartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1940},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages; two references added; to appear in the Journal of Functional Analysis

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