2017/01/03 by Popescu, Gelu
#FOS: Mathematics #Functional Analysis (math.FA) #Operator Algebras (math.OA)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.00766
This paper is an introduction to the hyperbolic geometry of noncommutative polyballs Bn of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. We use the theory of free pluriharmonic functions on polyballs and noncommutative Poisson kernels on tensor products of full Fock spaces to define hyperbolic type metrics on Bn, study their properties, and obtain hyperbolic versions of Schwarz-Pick lemma for free holomorphic functions on polyballs. As a consequence, the polyballs can be viewed as noncommutative hyperbolic spaces. When specialized to the operatorial polydisk Dk, our hyperbolic metric is complete and invariant under the group of all free holomorphic automorphisms of Dk, and the topology induced on Dk is the usual operator norm topology.