Transfer-function realization for multipliers of the Arveson space

Abstract

An interesting and recently much studied generalization of the classical Schur class is the class of contractive operator-valued multipliers for the reproducing kernel Hilbert space ${\mathcal H}(k_{d})$ on the unit ball ${\mathbb B}^{d} \subset {\mathbb C}^{d}$, where $k_{d}$ is the positive kernel $k_{d}(λ, ζ) = 1/(1 - < λ, ζ>)$ on ${\mathbb B}^{d}$. We study this space from the point of view of realization theory and functional models of de Branges-Rovnyak type. We highlight features which depart from the classical univariate case: coisometric realizations have only partial uniqueness properties, the nonuniqueness can be described explicitly, and this description assumes a particularly concrete form in the functional-model context.