Session 17. Functional Analysis: relations to Complex Analysis and PDE

Taylor's functional calculus and derived categories of Fréchet modules

Alexei Pirkovskii, National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Russia
J. L. Taylor's functional calculus theorem (1970) asserts that every commuting \(n\)-tuple \(T=(T_1,\ldots ,T_n)\) of bounded linear operators on a Banach space \(E\) admits a holomorphic functional calculus on any neighborhood \(U\) of the joint spectrum \(\sigma(T)\). This means that there exists a continuous homomorphism \(\gamma:\mathscr{O}(U)\to\mathscr{B}(E)\) (where \(\mathscr{O}(U)\) is the algebra of holomorphic functions on \(U\) and \(\mathscr{B}(E)\) is the algebra of bounded linear operators on \(E\)) that takes the coordinates \(z_1,\ldots ,z_n\) to \(T_1,\ldots ,T_n\), respectively. The original Taylor's proof was quite involved. In 1972, Taylor developed a completely different and considerably shorter proof based on methods of homological algebra. Later it was simplified and generalized by M. Putinar (1980) to the case of Fréchet \(\mathscr{O}(X)\)-modules, where \(X\) is a finite-dimensional Stein space. The idea of Taylor-Putinar's construction is to establish an isomorphism between a Fréchet \(\mathscr{O}(X)\)-module \(M\) satisfying \(\sigma(M)\subset U\) and the \(0\)th cohomology of a certain double complex \(C\) of Fréchet \(\mathscr{O}(U)\)-modules. Unfortunately, \(C\) depends on the choice of a special cover of \(X\) by Stein open sets, and there seems to be no canonical way of associating \(C\) to \(M\).

Our goal is to extend Taylor-Putinar's theorem to the setting of derived categories. We believe that this is exactly the environment in which Taylor-Putinar's theorem is most naturally formulated and proved. Given an object \(M\) of the derived category \(\mathsf{D}^-(\mathscr{O}(X)\mbox{-}\underline{\mathop{\mathsf{mod}}})\) of Fréchet \(\mathscr{O}(X)\)-modules, we define the spectrum \(\sigma(M)\subset X\), and we show that for every open set \(U\subset X\) containing \(\sigma(M)\) there is an isomorphism \( M \cong \mathrm{R}\Gamma(U,\mathscr{O}_X)\mathop{\widehat\otimes}\nolimits_{\mathscr{O}(X)}^{\mathrm{L}}M \) in \(\mathsf{D}^-(\mathscr{O}(X)\mbox{-}\underline{\mathop{\mathsf{mod}}})\). In the special case where \(M\) is a Fréchet \(\mathscr{O}(X)\)-module, this yields Taylor-Putinar's result. Moreover, we have \(C=\mathrm{R}\Gamma(U,\mathscr{O}_X)\mathop{\widehat\otimes}\nolimits_{\mathscr{O}(X)}^{\mathrm{L}}M\), so \(C\) is natural in \(M\) when viewed as an object of the derived category.

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