On certain commuting isometries, joint invariant subspaces and C*-algebras

Abstract

In this paper, motivated by the Berger, Coburn and Lebow and Bercovici, Douglas and Foias theory for tuples of commuting isometries, we study analytic representations and joint invariant subspaces of a class of commuting $n$-isometries and prove that the $C^{\ast }$-algebra generated by the $n$-shift restricted to an invariant subspace of finite codimension in $H^2({\mathbb{D}}^n)$ is unitarily equivalent to the $C^{\ast }$-algebra generated by the $n$-shift on $H^2({\mathbb{D}}^n)$.

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