Hadamard multipliers of the Agler class

Abstract

We prove several results about functions which preserve the Schur-Agler class under Hadamard or coefficient-wise product. First, functions which preserve the Schur class necessarily preserve the Schur-Agler class. Second, ``moments'' of certain commuting operator tuples form coefficients of Schur-Agler class preservers. Finally, any preserver of the full matrix Schur-Agler class must have coefficients given by moments of commuting operator tuples. We also point out that any counterexample to the multivariable von Neumann inequality can be used to derive a non-trivial Agler class preserver.