Subnormal Operators and Representations of Algebras of Bounded Analytic Functions and Other Uniform Algebras

Book excerpt: The present memoir lies between operator theory and function theory of one complex variable. Motivated by refinements of the analytic functional calculus of a subnormal operator, the authors are rapidly directed towards difficult problems of hard analysis. Quite specifically, the basic objects to be investigated in this paper are the unital (continuous) algebra homomorphisms [lowercase Greek]Pi : [italic]H[exponent infinity symbol]([italic]G) [rightwards arrow] [italic]L([italic]H), with the additional property that [lowercase Greek]Pi([italic]z) is a subnormal operator.