TY - JOUR
T1 - von Neumann’s inequality for row contractive matrix tuples
AU - Hartz, Michael
AU - Richter, Stefan
AU - Shalit, Orr Moshe
N1 - Funding Information:
The collaboration leading to this paper was spurred by the presentation of the question behind Theorem 1.1 by one of the authors in the “Open Problems Session” that was held at the online conference OTWIA 2020. We wish to thank Meric Augat, the organizer of that session, as well as the organizers of the conference. We are also grateful to Łukasz Kosiński for helpful comments and for bringing [16] to our attention. Moreover, we are grateful to the editor Mikael de la Salle for bringing to our attention a theorem of Schur, as well [17], where an elementary proof can be found. This led to an improved upper bound in Lemma 4.5.
Funding Information:
The work of M.H. is partially supported by a GIF grant. The work of O.M. Shalit is partially supported by ISF Grants no. 195/16 and 431/20.
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PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - We prove that for all n∈ N, there exists a constant Cn such that for all d∈ N, for every row contraction T consisting of d commuting n× n matrices and every polynomial p, the following inequality holds: ‖p(T)‖≤Cnsupz∈Bd|p(z)|.We apply this result and the considerations involved in the proof to several open problems from the pertinent literature. First, we show that Gleason’s problem cannot be solved contractively in H∞(Bd) for d≥ 2. Second, we prove that the multiplier algebra Mult(Da(Bd)) of the weighted Dirichlet space Da(Bd) on the ball is not topologically subhomogeneous when d≥ 2 and a∈ (0 , d). In fact, we determine all the bounded finite dimensional representations of the norm closed subalgebra A(Da(Bd)) of Mult(Da(Bd)) generated by polynomials. Lastly, we also show that there exists a uniformly bounded nc holomorphic function on the free commutative ball CBd that is levelwise uniformly continuous but not globally uniformly continuous.
AB - We prove that for all n∈ N, there exists a constant Cn such that for all d∈ N, for every row contraction T consisting of d commuting n× n matrices and every polynomial p, the following inequality holds: ‖p(T)‖≤Cnsupz∈Bd|p(z)|.We apply this result and the considerations involved in the proof to several open problems from the pertinent literature. First, we show that Gleason’s problem cannot be solved contractively in H∞(Bd) for d≥ 2. Second, we prove that the multiplier algebra Mult(Da(Bd)) of the weighted Dirichlet space Da(Bd) on the ball is not topologically subhomogeneous when d≥ 2 and a∈ (0 , d). In fact, we determine all the bounded finite dimensional representations of the norm closed subalgebra A(Da(Bd)) of Mult(Da(Bd)) generated by polynomials. Lastly, we also show that there exists a uniformly bounded nc holomorphic function on the free commutative ball CBd that is levelwise uniformly continuous but not globally uniformly continuous.
KW - Gleason’s problem
KW - Noncommutative function theory
KW - Von Neumann type inequality
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U2 - 10.1007/s00209-022-03044-1
DO - 10.1007/s00209-022-03044-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130583607
SN - 0025-5874
VL - 301
SP - 3877
EP - 3894
JO - Mathematische Zeitschrift
JF - Mathematische Zeitschrift
IS - 4
ER -