The structure of an isometric tuple

An $n$-tuple of operators $(V_1,...,V_n)$ acting on a Hilbert space $H$ is said to be isometric if the operator $[V_1\...\ V_n]:H^n\to H$ is an isometry. We prove a decomposition for an isometric tuple of operators that generalizes the classical Lebesgue-von Neumann-Wold decomposition of an isometry into the direct sum of a unilateral shift, an absolutely continuous unitary and a singular unitary. We show that, as in the classical case, this decomposition determines the weakly closed algebra and the von Neumann algebra generated by the tuple.Comment: 30 pages; significant change

On perturbations of the isometric semigroup of shifts on the semiaxis

We study perturbations $(\tilde\tau_t)_{t\ge 0}$ of the semigroup of shifts $(\tau_t)_{t\ge 0}$ on $L^2(\R_+)$ with the property that $\tilde\tau_t - \tau_t$ belongs to a certain Schatten-von Neumann class \gS_p with $p\ge 1$. We show that, for the unitary component in the Wold-Kolmogorov decomposition of the cogenerator of the semigroup $(\tilde\tau_t)_{t\ge 0}$, {\it any singular} spectral type may be achieved by \gS_1 perturbations. We provide an explicit construction for a perturbation with a given spectral type based on the theory of model spaces of the Hardy space $H^2$. Also we show that we may obtain {\it any} prescribed spectral type for the unitary component of the perturbed semigroup by a perturbation from the class \gS_p with $p>1$