Applications of the Wold decomposition to the study of row contractions associated with directed graphs

Katsoulis, Elias; Kribs, David

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03692-5

Applications of the Wold decomposition to the study of row contractions associated with directed graphs
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by Elias Katsoulis and David W. Kribs

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 3739-3755

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03692-5

Published electronically: March 31, 2005

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Abstract:

Based on a Wold decomposition for families of partial isometries and projections of Cuntz-Krieger-Toeplitz-type, we extend several fundamental theorems from the case of single vertex graphs to the general case of countable directed graphs with no sinks. We prove a Szego-type factorization theorem for CKT families, which leads to information on the structure of the unit ball in free semigroupoid algebras, and show that joint similarity implies joint unitary equivalence for such families. For each graph we prove a generalization of von Neumann’s inequality which applies to row contractions of operators on Hilbert space which are related to the graph in a natural way. This yields a functional calculus determined by quiver algebras and free semigroupoid algebras. We establish a generalization of Coburn’s theorem for the $\mathrm {C}^*$-algebra of a CKT family, and prove a universality theorem for $\mathrm {C}^*$-algebras generated by these families. In both cases, the $\mathrm {C}^*$-algebras generated by quiver algebras play the universal role.

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