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Canonical Decompositions and Conditional Dilations of -Contraction and -Contraction

arXiv:2510.26502

Abstract

A -tuple of commuting bounded operators defined on a Hilbert space is said to be a \textit{-contraction} if is a spectral set for . Let and be tuples of commuting bounded operators on satisfying for and . The tuple is called a \textit{-contraction} if is a spectral set for . In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the fundamental operators associated with -contractions and -contractions. Furthermore, we obtain a Beurling-Lax-Halmos type representation for invariant subspaces corresponding to a pure -isometry and a pure -isometry. We also construct a conditional dilation for a -contraction and a -contraction and develop an explicit functional model for a certain subclass of these operator tuples. Finally, we demonstrate that every -contraction (respectively, -contraction) admits a unique decomposition as a direct sum of a -unitary (respectively, -unitary) and a completely non-unitary -contraction (respectively, -contraction).