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Sub-Hardy Hilbert spaces in the non-commutative unit row-ball

Functional Analysis 2023-11-28 v2

Abstract

In the classical Hardy space theory of square-summable Taylor series in the complex unit disk there is a circle of ideas connecting Szeg\"o's theorem, factorization of positive semi-definite Toeplitz operators, non-extreme points of the convex set of contractive analytic functions, de Branges--Rovnyak spaces and the Smirnov class of ratios of bounded analytic functions in the disk. We extend these ideas to the multi-variable and non-commutative setting of the full Fock space, identified as the \emph{free Hardy space} of square-summable power series in several non-commuting variables. As an application, we prove a Fej\'er-Riesz style theorem for non-commutative rational functions.

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@article{arxiv.2204.05016,
  title  = {Sub-Hardy Hilbert spaces in the non-commutative unit row-ball},
  author = {Michael T. Jury and Robert T. W. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05016},
  year   = {2023}
}
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