Transfer functions of regular linear systems. III: Inversions and duality (Q1882523)

From the Introduction: ``This is a continuation of the papers \textit{G. Weiss} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 342, No. 2, 827--854 (1994; Zbl 0798.93036)] and \textit{O. Staffans} and \textit{G. Weiss} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 354, No. 8, 3229--3262 (2002; Zbl 0996.93012)] (Part I and Part II) which addressed some fundamental questions about the representation of well-posed linear systems and, in particular, regular linear systems.'' ``We investigate three types of inversions of a well-posed system: time-inversion, flow-inversion, and time-flow-inversion. (The third inversion can sometimes, but not always, be reduced to a combination of the first two.) We also investigate duality of well-posed systems. Each of these transformations, if applicable, leads to a new well-posed system. We are particularly interested in characterizing the system operator of the various inverted systems and of the dual system, with emphasis on the simpler case when the systems are regular. (In the regular case, the system operator has a natural decomposition into four blocks which correspond to the generating operators of the system, as explained in Part II.)'' ``We\dots also discuss the preservation of (weak) regularity under the various transformations.''