The Drury–Arveson Space on the Siegel Upper Half-space and a von Neumann Type Inequality

In this work we study what we call Siegel–dissipative vector of commuting operators $$(A_1,\ldots , A_{d+1})$$ ( A 1 , … , A d + 1 ) on a Hilbert space $${{\mathcal {H}}}$$ H and we obtain a von Neumann type inequality which involves the Drury–Arveson space DA on the Siegel upper half-space $${{\mathcal {U}}}$$ U . The operator $$A_{d+1}$$ A d + 1 is allowed to be unbounded and it is the infinitesimal generator of a contraction semigroup $$\{e^{-i\tau A_{d+1}}\}_{\tau <0}$$ { e - i τ A d + 1 } τ < 0 . We then study the operator $$e^{-i\tau A_{d+1}}A^{\alpha }$$ e - i τ A d + 1 A α where $$A^{\alpha }=A_1^{\alpha _1}\cdots A^{\alpha _d}_d$$ A α = A 1 α 1 ⋯ A d α d for $$\alpha \in {\mathbb N}_0^d$$ α ∈ N 0 d and prove that can be studied by means of model operators on a weighted $$L^2$$ L 2 space. To prove our results we obtain a Paley–Wiener type theorem for DA and we investigate some multiplier operators on DA as well.

Row Contractions Annihilated by Interpolating Vanishing Ideals

We study similarity classes of commuting row contractions annihilated by what we call higher-order vanishing ideals of interpolating sequences. Our main result exhibits a Jordan-type direct sum decomposition for these row contractions. We illustrate how the family of ideals to which our theorem applies is very rich, especially in several variables. We also give two applications of the main result. First, we obtain a purely operator theoretic characterization of interpolating sequences for the multiplier algebra of the Drury–Arveson space. Second, we classify certain classes of cyclic commuting row contractions up to quasi-similarity in terms of their annihilating ideals. This refines some of our recent work on the topic. We show how this classification is sharp: in general quasi-similarity cannot be improved to similarity. The obstruction to doing so is a scarcity of norm-controlled similarities between commuting tuples of nilpotent matrices, and we investigate this question in detail.

On a class of shift-invariant subspaces of the Drury-Arveson space

In the Drury-Arveson space, we consider the subspace of functions whose Taylor coefficients are supported in a set Y⊂ ℕd with the property that ℕ\X + ej ⊂ ℕ\X for all j = 1, . . . , d. This is an easy example of shift-invariant subspace, which can be considered as a RKHS in is own right, with a kernel that can be explicitly calculated for specific choices of X. Every such a space can be seen as an intersection of kernels of Hankel operators with explicit symbols. Finally, this is the right space on which Drury’s inequality can be optimally adapted to a sub-family of the commuting and contractive operators originally considered by Drury.