{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q931007","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q931007","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q931007","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-13T23:09:07Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q931007","name":"Quasi-similarity of contractions having a \\(2\\times 2\\) singular characteristic function","headline":"Quasi-similarity of contractions having a \\(2\\times 2\\) singular characteristic function","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5292311","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q931007","datePublished":"2008-06-24","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q283720"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q188916"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q188917"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q251767"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q85344"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1016/J.JMAA.2008.03.072","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JMAA.2008.03.072"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JMAA.2008.03.072"],"comment":"For \\(j= 1,2\\), let \\(T_j\\) be a completely nonunitary contraction on a complex Hilbert spate with a 2-by-2 characteristic function \\(\\Theta_j\\) satisfying \\(\\text{det\\,}\\Theta_j= 0\\). The present paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of \\(\\Theta_j\\) for \\(T_1\\) and \\(T_2\\) to be quasi-similar to each other. More precisely, it is known that the singular \\(\\Theta_j\\) can be written uniquely as \\(\\Theta_j= w_j m_j\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} a_j\\\\ b_j\\end{smallmatrix}\\right][c_j d_j]\\), where \\(w_j\\), \\(m_j\\), \\(a_j\\), \\(b_j\\), \\(c_j\\) and \\(d_j\\) are \\(H^\\infty\\) satisfying   (1) \\(w_j\\) is an outer function with \\(|w_j|\\leq 1\\) a.e., (2) \\(m_j\\) is inner, (3) \\(|a_j|^2+ |b_j|^2= |c_j|^2+ |d_j|^2= 1\\) a.e., and (4) \\(a_j\\) and \\(b_j\\) (resp., \\(c_j\\) and \\(d_j\\)) have no nontrivial common inner divisor.   The main theorem says that \\(T_1\\) is quasi-similar to \\(T_2\\) if and only if (a) \\(m_1= m_2\\equiv m\\) a.e., (b) the sets \\(\\{e^{i\\theta}: \\Theta\\) real, \\(|w_j(e^{i\\theta})|< 1\\}\\), \\(j= 1,2\\), differ by a set of Lebesgue measure zero, (c) there exist 2-by-2 matrices \\(\\Lambda\\) and \\(\\Phi\\) with entries in the Smirnov class \\(N^+= \\{f/g: f\\), \\(g\\) in \\(H^\\infty\\), \\(g\\) outer\\} satisfying \\(\\Lambda\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} a_2\\\\ b_2\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]= \\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} a_1\\\\ b_1\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]\\) and \\(\\Phi\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} d_1\\\\ -c_1\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]= \\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} d_2\\\\ -c_2\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]\\) such that the inner parts of \\(\\text{det\\,}\\Lambda\\) and \\(\\text{det\\,}\\Phi\\) coincide and have no nontrivial common inner divisor with \\(m\\), and (d) the analogous condition as (c) with the roles of \\(\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} a_1\\\\ b_1\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]\\) and \\(\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} a_2\\\\ b_2\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]\\) (resp., \\(\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} d_1\\\\ -c_1\\end{smallmatrix}\\right]\\) and \\(\\left[\\begin{smallmatrix} d_2\\\\ -c_2\\end{smallmatrix}\\right])\\) switched. The proof makes use of the coordinate-free function model developed by Nikolski and Vasyunin. The authors conjecture that conditions (c) and (d) can be replaced by (c\\('\\)) \\(N^+\\{a_1,b_1\\}= N^+\\{a_2, b_2\\}\\), and (d\\('\\)) \\(N^+\\{c_1, d_1\\}= N^+\\{c_2, d_2\\}\\), where, for two functions \\(a\\) and \\(b\\) in \\(H^\\infty\\), \\(N^+\\{a,b\\}\\) denotes the ideal \\(\\{ua+ vb: u,v\\in N^+\\}\\) generated by \\(a\\) and \\(b\\).","citation":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q2468418"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1109309"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3713006"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4537721"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3840240"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5600360"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4121076"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4137668"}]},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-13T23:09:07Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}