The relationship between the joint spectrum γ(A) of an n-tuple $A=(A_1,...,A_n)$ of selfadjoint operators and the support of the corresponding Weyl calculus T(A) : f ↦ f(A) is discussed. It is shown that one always has γ(A) ⊂ supp (T(A)). Moreover, when the operators are compact, equality occurs if and only if the operators $A_j$ mutually commute. In the non-commuting case the equality fails badly: While γ(A) is countable, supp(T(A)) has to be an uncountable set. An example is given showing that, for non-compact operators,...

* Partially supported by Grant MM-428/94 of MESC.In this paper we present some generalizations of results of M. S. Livšic [4,6], concerning regular colligations (A1, A2, H, Φ, E, σ1, σ2, γ, ˜γ) (σ1 > 0) of a pair of commuting nonselfadjoint operators A1, A2 with finite dimensional imaginary parts, their complete characteristic functions and a class Ω(σ1, σ2) of operator-functions W(x1, x2, z): E → E in the case of an inner function W(1, 0, z) of the class Ω(σ1). ...

The characteristic function for a contraction is a classical complete unitary invariant devised by Sz.-Nagy and Foiaş. Just as a contraction is related to the Szegö kernel $k_S(z,w)={(1-zw̅)}^{-1}$ for |z|,|w| < 1, by means of $(1/k_S)(T,T*)\ge 0$, we consider an arbitrary open connected domain Ω in ℂⁿ, a complete Pick kernel k on Ω and a tuple T = (T₁, ..., Tₙ) of commuting bounded operators on a complex separable Hilbert space ℋ such that (1/k)(T,T*) ≥ 0. For a complete Pick kernel the 1/k functional calculus makes sense in a beautiful...

Motivated by some structural properties of Drury-Arveson d-shift, we investigate a class of functions consisting of polynomials and completely monotone functions defined on the semi-group ℕ of non-negative integers, and its operator-theoretic counterpart which we refer to as the class of completely hypercontractive tuples of finite order. We obtain a Lévy-Khinchin type integral representation for the spherical generating tuples associated with such operator tuples and discuss its applications.

Let and be mutually commuting unital C* subalgebras of (). It is shown that and are C* independent if and only if for all natural numbers n, m, for all n-tuples A = (A₁, ..., Aₙ) of doubly commuting nonzero operators of and m-tuples B = (B₁, ..., Bₘ) of doubly commuting nonzero operators of , $Sp(A,B)=Sp\left(A\right)\times Sp\left(B\right)$, where Sp denotes the joint Taylor spectrum.