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The well known Douglas Lemma says that for operators $A,B$ on Hilbert space that $AA^*-BB^*succeq 0$ implies $B=AC$ for some contraction operator $C$. The result carries over directly to classical operator-valued Toeplitz operators by simply replacing operator by Toeplitz operator. Free functions generalize the notion of free polynomials and formal power series and trace back to the work of J. Taylor in the 1970s. They are of current interest, in part because of their connections with free probability and engineering systems theory. For free functions $a$ and $b$ on a free domain $cK$ defined free polynomial inequalities, a sufficient condition on the difference $aa^*-bb^*$ to imply the existence a free function $c$ taking contractive values on $cK$ such that $a=bc$ is established. The connection to recent work of Agler and McCarthy and their free Toeplitz Corona Theorem is exposited.
The main purpose of this paper is to extend and refine some work of Agler-McCarthy and Amar concerning the Corona problem for the polydisk and the unit ball in $mathbb{C}^n$.
Linear spaces with an Euclidean metric are ubiquitous in mathematics, arising both from quadratic forms and inner products. Operators on such spaces also occur naturally. In recent years, the study of multivariate operator theory has made substantial progress. Although the study of self-adjoint operators goes back a few decades, the non self-adjoint theory has developed at a slower pace. While several approaches to this topic has been developed, the one that has been most fruitful is clearly the study of Hilbert spaces that are modules over natural function algebras like $mathcal A({Omega})$, where $Omega subseteq mathbb C^m$ is a bounded domain, consisting of complex valued functions which are holomorphic on some open set $U$ containing $overline{Omega}$, the closure of $Omega$. The book, Hilbert Modules over function algebra, R. G. Douglas and V. I. Paulsen showed how to recast many of the familiar theorems of operator theory in the language of Hilbert modules. The book, Spectral decomposition of analytic sheaves, J. Eschmeier and M. Putinar and the book, Analytic Hilbert modules, X. Chen and K. Guo, provide an account of the achievements from the recent past. The impetus for much of what is described below comes from the interplay of operator theory with other areas of mathematics like complex geometry and representation theory of locally compact groups.
We review some history and some recent results concerning Toeplitz determinants and their applications. We discuss, in particular, the crucial role of the two-dimensional Ising model in stimulating the development of the theory of Toeplitz determinants.
In this paper we introduce techniques from complex harmonic analysis to prove a weaker version of the Geometric Arveson-Douglas Conjecture for complex analytic subsets that is smooth on the boundary of the unit ball and intersects transversally with it. In fact, we prove that the projection operator onto the corresponding quotient module is in the Toeplitz algebra $mathcal{T}(L^{infty})$, which implies the essential normality of the quotient module. Combining some other techniques we actually obtain the $p$-essential normality for $p>2d$, where $d$ is the complex dimension of the analytic subset. Finally, we show that our results apply for the closure of a radical polynomial ideal $I$ whose zero variety satisfies the above conditions. A key technique is defining a right inverse operator of the restriction map from the unit ball to the analytic subset generalizing the result of Beatrouss paper $L^p$-estimates for extensions of holomorphic functions.
We study the asymptotics in n for n-dimensional Toeplitz determinants whose symbols possess Fisher-Hartwig singularities on a smooth background. We prove the general non-degenerate asymptotic behavior as conjectured by Basor and Tracy. We also obtain asymptotics of Hankel determinants on a finite interval as well as determinants of Toeplitz+Hankel type. Our analysis is based on a study of the related system of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle using the Riemann-Hilbert approach.