Corona Theorems for Multiplier Algebras on the Unit Ball in C^n

Series
Job Candidate Talk
Time
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Brett Wick – University of South Carolina
Organizer
Doron Lubinsky
Carleson's Corona Theorem from the 1960's has served as a major motivation for many results in complex function theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis. In its simplest form, the result states that for two bounded analytic functions, g_1 and g_2, on the unit disc with no common zeros, it is possible to find two other bounded analytic functions, f_1 and f_2, such that f_1g_1+f_2g_2=1. Moreover, the functions f_1 and f_2 can be chosen with some norm control. In this talk we will discuss an exciting new generalization of this result to certain function spaces on the unit ball in several complex variables. In particular, we will highlight the Corona Theorem for the Drury-Arveson space and its applications in multi-variable operator theory.