Clark measures and de Branges-Rovnyak spaces in several variables

Abstract

Let $B_n$ denote the unit ball of $\mathbb{C}^n$, $n\ge 1$, and let $\mathcal{D}$ denote a finite product of $B_{n_j}$, $j\ge 1$. Given a non-constant holomorphic function $b: \mathcal{D} \to B_1$, we study the corresponding family $\sigma_\alpha[b]$, $\alpha\in\partial B_1$, of Clark measures on the distinguished boundary $\partial\mathcal{D}$. We construct a natural unitary operator from the de Branges-Rovnyak space $\mathcal{H}(b)$ onto the Hardy space $H^2(\sigma_\alpha)$. As an application, for $\mathcal{D}= B_n$ and an inner function $I: B_n \to B_1$, we show that the property $\sigma_1[I]\ll\sigma_1[b]$ is directly related to the membership of an appropriate explicit function in $\mathcal{H}(b)$.