Interpolation theory in sectorial Stieltjes classes and explicit system solutions (Q1580529)

In this paper, the authors introduce and study sectorial classes of matrix-valued Stieltjes functions in which they solve the bitangential interpolation problem of Nudelman and Ball-Gohberg-Rodman. These classes are the families \({\mathcal Y}^{\text{cot}\,\alpha}\) (with \(\alpha\in(0,\pi/2))\) of \({\mathbb C}^{n\times n}\)-valued functions analytic in the open upper half-plane \({\mathbb C}_+\) and such that the kernels \[ \frac{N(z)-N(w)^*}{z-w^*} \] and \[ K_\alpha(w,z)= \frac{zN(z)-w^*N(w)^*}{z-w^*}-\text{cot}\,\alpha N(w)^*N(z)\eqno(1) \] are positive there. These classes appear in the theory of \(\alpha\)-sectorial operators. When det(\(I_n -\text{cot}\alpha N(z))\) is not identically vanishing, the positivity condition (1) is equivalent to the fact that \(n(z)\) = \(zN(z)(I_n-\text{ cot}\alpha N(z))^{-1}\) is a Herglotz-Nevanlinna function. Let \[ P(z)=\left(\begin{matrix} zI_n & 0\\ -\text{cot}\,\alpha I_n & I_n\end{matrix} \right). \] The authors study the automorphism of rational matrix-functions defined by \[ {\mathcal A}(W)(z)=P(z)W(z)P(z)^{-1}\,, \] where \(W\) is a \({\mathbb C}^{2n\times 2n}\)-valued rational function. This automorphism preserves the class of \(J\)-unitary rational functions, where \[ J=\left(\begin{matrix} 0 & -\text{ i}I_n\\ \text{ i}I_n & 0 \end{matrix}\right)\,. \] The authors consider also a new type of solutions of Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problems, so-called explicit system solutions generated by Brodskii-Livsic colligations, and find conditions on interpolation data of their existence and uniqueness. They point out the connections between sectorial Stieltjes classes and sectorial operators, and find out new properties of the classical Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation matrices (in the scalar case). They present in terms of interpolation data the exact formula for the angle of sectoriality of the main operator in the explicit system solution as well as the criterion for this operator to be extremal. The interpolation model for nonselfadjoint matrices is established.