Characteristic functions for multicontractions and automorphisms of the unit ball

Chafiq Benhida, Dan Timotin

A \emph{multicontraction} on a Hilbert space $\HH$ is an $n$-tuple of operators $T=(T_1,...,T_n)$ acting on $\HH$, such that $\sum_{i=1}^n T_i T_i^*\le \1_\HH$. We obtain some resu…