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This article is the story of how the author had the good fortune to be able to prove the primordial version of the commutant lifting theorem. The phrase “good fortune” is used advisedly. The story begins with the intersection of two lives, Paul’s and the author’s.
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Sarason, D. (2010). Commutant Lifting. In: Axler, S., Rosenthal, P., Sarason, D. (eds) A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators. Operator Theory Advances and Applications, vol 207. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0347-8_19
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