Tensor algebras and displacement structure. I: The Schur algorithm (Q1607595)

The authors explore the connection between tensor algebras and displacement structure. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, they review the basic elements relevant to the tensor algebra. They describe the well-known isomorphic representation of this later algebra by certain algebra \(U^0_T(H)\) of upper triangular bounded operators. In this section they show that a certain class of positive definite kernels on the free semigroup with \(N\) generators has also displacement structure of the type mentioned above, and in Corollary 2.5 they explain the connection between this class of positive definite kernels and the algebra \(U^0_T(H)\). In Section 3 they obtain results corresponding to scattering experiments. Theorem 3.1 is the main result in this direction and as a by-product it can be obtained Schur type parametrizations for \(U^0_T(H)\) and the realization of the elements of the tensor algebra as transfer maps of a certain class of non-stationary linear systems. Section 4 develops a Schur type algorithm in the framework of \(U^0_T(H)\).