Function theory of the hexablock and applications to the tetrablock and Euclidean biball

Abstract

The realization, interpolation, extension and Toeplitz corona problems are amongst the central themes in function theory of a domain in $\mathbb{C}^d$. The present work addresses these four problems for the hexablock $\mathbb{H}$, a domain in $\mathbb{C}^4$ arising in connection with a special case of $\mu$-synthesis in $H^{\infty}$ control theory. We determine Schur-Agler class $SA(\mathbb{H})$ for $\mathbb{H}$ and find a realization formula for $\mathbb H$. With the help of this realization formula we state and prove interpolation, extension and Toeplitz corona theorems for the hexablock. As an application, we obtain analogous theorems for the Euclidean unit ball in $\mathbb{C}^2$. Moreover, we recover the existing same results for the tetrablock $\mathbb E$, another domain associated with the $\mu$-synthesis, as consequences of the hexablock theory and in terms of the Schur-Agler class $SA(\mathbb{H})$ and admissible kernels on $\mathbb{H}$.