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Main Authors: Kumar, Poornendu, Rastogi, Shubham, Tripathi, Raghavendra
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16401
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author Kumar, Poornendu
Rastogi, Shubham
Tripathi, Raghavendra
author_facet Kumar, Poornendu
Rastogi, Shubham
Tripathi, Raghavendra
contents Douglas and Rudin proved that any unimodular function on the unit circle $\T$ can be uniformly approximated by quotients of inner functions. We extend this result to the operator-valued unimodular functions defined on the boundary of the open unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^d$. Our proof technique combines the spectral theorem for unitary operators with the Douglas-Rudin theorem in the scalar case to bootstrap the result to the operator-valued case. This yields a new proof and a significant generalization of Barclay's result [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 2009] on the approximation of matrix-valued unimodular functions on $\T$.
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spellingShingle Douglas-Rudin Approximation theorem for operator-valued functions on the unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^d$
Kumar, Poornendu
Rastogi, Shubham
Tripathi, Raghavendra
Functional Analysis
46E40, 32A99, 30J05
Douglas and Rudin proved that any unimodular function on the unit circle $\T$ can be uniformly approximated by quotients of inner functions. We extend this result to the operator-valued unimodular functions defined on the boundary of the open unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^d$. Our proof technique combines the spectral theorem for unitary operators with the Douglas-Rudin theorem in the scalar case to bootstrap the result to the operator-valued case. This yields a new proof and a significant generalization of Barclay's result [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 2009] on the approximation of matrix-valued unimodular functions on $\T$.
title Douglas-Rudin Approximation theorem for operator-valued functions on the unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^d$
topic Functional Analysis
46E40, 32A99, 30J05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16401