Equivalence between the dilation and lifting properties of an ordered group through multiplicative families of isometries. A version of the commutant lifting theorem on some lexicographic groups

Let be a locally compact abelian ordered group. has the dilation property if a special extension of the Naimark dilation theorem holds for and it has the commutant lifting property if a natural extension of the Sz.-Nagy — Foias commutant lifting theorem holds for .We prove that these two conditions are equivalent and we give another necessary and sufficient condition in terms of unitary extensions of multiplicative families of partial isometries.A version of the commutant lifting theorem is given for the groups ⁿ and × ⁿ with the lexicographic order and the natural topologies.Both authors were partially supported by the CDCH of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and by CONICIT grant G-97000668.