Non-commutative holomorphic semicocycles

Abstract

This paper studies holomorphic semicocycles over semigroups in the unit disk, which take values in an arbitrary unital Banach algebra. We prove that every such semicocycle is a solution to a corresponding evolution problem. We then investigate the linearization problem: which semicocycles are cohomologous to constant semicocycles? In contrast with the case of commutative semicocycles, in the non-commutative case non-linearizable semicocycles are shown to exist. Simple conditions for linearizability are derived and are shown to be sharp.