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When T is a completely non-unitary (cnu) contraction with Sz.-Nagy —Foias characteristic function θ and μ is a scalar (0 < μ < 1) then general theory implies the existence of a cnu contraction T [μ] with characteristic function How to describe T [μ] in terms of T? In this paper, we find a simple answer in case T is in the class C.0. An operator is called homogeneous if its spectrum is contained in the closed unit disc and all the bi-holomorphic automorphisms of the unit disc lift to automorphisms of the operator T modulo unitary equivalence. When T is homogeneous, so is T [μ] We find explicit formulae for the characteristic functions of the (homogeneous) twisted Bergman shifts – these have product formulae involving the discrete series projective representations of the Möbius group. These formulae lead to an explicit description of the Sz.-Nagy—Foias models of these weighted shifts. Combining our main results with an analytic continuation argument, we find a three-parameter family of homogeneous operators.
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Bagchi, B., Misra, G. (2001). Scalar perturbations of the Sz.-Nagy—Foias characteristic function. In: Kérchy, L., Gohberg, I., Foias, C.I., Langer, H. (eds) Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Related Topics. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 127. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8374-0_5
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