A matrix characterization of boundary representations of positive matrices in the Hardy space

Abstract

Spectral measures give rise to a natural harmonic analysis on the unit disc via a boundary representation of a positive matrix arising from a spectrum of the measure. We consider in this paper the reverse: for a positive matrix in the Hardy space of the unit disc we consider which measures, if any, yield a boundary representation of the positive matrix. We introduce a potential characterization of those measures via a matrix identity and show that the characterization holds in several important special cases.