Type: Article
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Citations: 67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1512/iumj.1995.44.2005
We first show that every γ-contractive commuting multioperator is unitarily equivalent to the restriction of S (γ) ⊕W to an invariant subspace, where S (γ) is a backwards multi-shift and W a γ-isometry.We then describe γ-isometries in terms of (γ, 1)-isometries, and establish that under an additional assumption on T , W above can be chosen to be a commuting multioperator of isometries.Our methods provide, as a by-product, a new proof of the existence of a regular unitary dilation for every (1, ..., 1)-contractive commuting multioperator.