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Nonself-adjoint Semicrossed Products by Abelian Semigroups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
Let $S$ be the semigroup $S=\sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{\oplus k}{{{S}_{i}}}$, where for each $i\in I,{{S}_{i}}$ is a countable subsemigroup of the additive semigroup ${{\mathbb{R}}_{+}}$ containing 0. We consider representations of $S$ as contractions ${{\left\{ {{T}_{s}} \right\}}_{s\in S}}$ on a Hilbert space with the Nica-covariance property: $T_{s}^{*}{{T}_{t}}={{T}_{t}}T_{s}^{*}$ whenever $t\wedge s=0$. We show that all such representations have a unique minimal isometric Nica-covariant dilation.
This result is used to help analyse the nonself-adjoint semicrossed product algebras formed from Nica-covariant representations of the action of $S$ on an operator algebra $\mathcal{A}$ by completely contractive endomorphisms. We conclude by calculating the ${{C}^{*}}$-envelope of the isometric nonself-adjoint semicrossed product algebra (in the sense of Kakariadis and Katsoulis).
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