Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287
Abstract:
It is well known that for every isometry , This fact for the shift operator is a basis for many important developments in operator theory and topology. In this paper we prove an analogous formula for a pair of isometries , namely
where is the complete anti-symmetric sum and is the Fredholm index of the pair . The major tool is what we call the fringe operator. Two examples are considered.