Doubly Commuting Semigroups of Isometries

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the structure of doubly commuting semigroups of isometries. We record a new proof of Cooper's theorem in the Hilbert module setting. We discuss the Fell topology on the set of equivalence classes of irreducible, doubly commuting isometric representations of ${\mathbb{R}}_{+}^d$. We show that if $d$ is finite, the topology is $T_0$. We indicate the pathologies that occur when $d=\infty$. In particular, we show that Wold decomposition fails for isometric representations of ${\mathbb{R}}_{+}^{\infty }$ and prove that the Fell topology on the set of equivalence classes of irreducible, doubly commuting isometric representations of ${\mathbb{R}}_{+}^{\infty }$ is not $T_0$