Wold-type extension for N-tuples of commuting contractions
Volume 137 / 1999
Studia Mathematica 137 (1999), 81-91
DOI: 10.4064/sm-137-1-81-91
Abstract
Let (T_1,…,T_N) 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 (V_1,…,V_N) of contractions on a superspace K of ℋ such that each $V_j$ extends $T_j$, j=1,…,N, and the N-tuple (V_1,…,V_N) has a decomposition similar to the Wold-von Neumann decomposition for coisometries (although the $V_j$ need not be coisometries). As an application, we obtain a new proof of a result of Słociński (see [9])
