Badly approximable matrix functions and canonical factorizations

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2000.49.1912MaRDI QIDQ2733851zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. B. Alexeev, Vladimir V. Peller

Publication date 12 August 2001

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101225

zbMATH Keywords

approximation of matrix functionsbadly approximable matrix functionsbounded analytic matrix functionsHankel operatorinvariancepartial canonical factorizationssuboptimal approximationToeplitz operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Approximation in the complex plane (30E10) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Linear operator methods in interpolation, moment and extension problems (47A57) Linear operator approximation theory (47A58) Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35)

Abstract: We continue studying the problem of analytic approximation of matrix functions. We introduce the notion of a partial canonical factorization of a badly approximable matrix function $Phi$ and the notion of a canonical factorization of a very badly approximable matrix function $Phi$. Such factorizations are defined in terms of so-called balanced unitary-valued functions which have many remarkable properties. Unlike the case of thematic factorizations studied earlier in [PY1], [PY2], [PT], [AP1], the factors in canonical factorizations (as well as partial canonical factorizations) are uniquely determined by the matrix function $Phi$ up to constant unitary factors. We study many properties of canonical factorizations. In particular we show that under certain natural assumptions on a function space $X$ the condition $PhiinX$ implies that all factors in a canonical factorization of $Phi$ belong to the same space $X$. In the last section we characterize the very badly approximable unitary-valued functions $U$ that satisfy the condition $|H_U{|}_{exte}<1$.

Review text

The authors study the problem of approximation of matrix functions on the unit circle by bounded analytic matrix functions in the unit disk. They introduce canonical and partial canonical factorizations and characteristic classes of badly approximable and very badly approximable matrix functions in terms of such factorizations. Unlike thematic factorizations introduced in \textit{V. V. Peller} and \textit{N. J. Young} [J. Funct. Anal. 120, No. 2, 300-343 (1994; Zbl 0808.47011)]. Canonical factorizations have an important invariance property. Their factors are uniquely determined modulo constant unitary factors.

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