A Characterization of Boundary Representations of Positive Matrices in the Hardy Space via the Abel Product

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 prove a characterization of those representing measures via a matrix identity by introducing a new operator product called the Abel Product.