Representation generated by a finite number of Hilbert space operators
It is shown that reducing bands of measures yield decompositions not only of an operator representation itself, but also of its commutant. This has many consequences for commuting Hilbert space representations and for commuting operators on Hilbert spaces. Among other things, it enables one to construct a Lebesgue-type decomposition of several commuting contractions without assuming any von Neumann-type inequality.
Let (T1,…,TN) be an N-tuple of commuting contractions on a separable, complex, infinite-dimensional Hilbert space ℋ. We obtain the existence of a commuting N-tuple (V1,…,VN) of contractions on a superspace K of ℋ such that each extends , j=1,…,N, and the N-tuple (V1,…,VN) has a decomposition similar to the Wold-von Neumann decomposition for coisometries (although the need not be coisometries). As an application, we obtain a new proof of a result of Słociński (see [9])
The asymptotic limit of a bicontraction T (that is, a pair of commuting contractions) on a Hilbert space is used to describe a Nagy-Foiaş-Langer type decomposition of T. This decomposition is refined in the case when the asymptotic limit of T is an orthogonal projection. The case of a bicontraction T consisting of hyponormal (even quasinormal) contractions is also considered, where we have .
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