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Wold decomposition for doubly commuting isometries

Functional Analysis 2013-12-13 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain a complete description of the class of n-tuples (n >= 2) of doubly commuting isometries. In particular, we present a several variables analogue of the Wold decomposition for isometries on Hilbert spaces. Our main result is a generalization of M. Slocinski's Wold-type decomposition of a pair of doubly commuting isometries.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7454,
  title  = {Wold decomposition for doubly commuting isometries},
  author = {Jaydeb Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7454},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages, revised version. To appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications

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