Roots and Logarithms of Multipliers

Abstract: By now it is a well-known fact that if $f$ is a multiplier for the Drury-Arveson space $H^2_n$, and if there is a $c>0$ such that $|f(z)|\geq c$ for every $z\in B$, then the reciprocal function 1/f is also a multiplier for $H^2_n$. We show that for such an $f$ and for every $t\in \mathbb{R}$, $f^t$ is also a multiplier for $H^2_n$. We do so by deriving a differentiation formula for $R^m(f^th)$.Moreover, by this formula the same result holds for spaces $H_{m,s}$ of the Besov-Dirichlet type. The same technique also gives us the result that for a non-vanishing multiplier $f$ of $H^2_n$, $log f$ is a multiplier of $H^2_n$ if and only if log $f$ is bounded on $B$.