Matrix-valued Aleksandrov-Clark measures and Carathéodory angular derivatives (Q2215832)

This paper investigates families of matrix-valued Aleksandrov-Clark measures \(\{ \mu^{\alpha} \}\), corresponding to purely contractive \(n \times n\) matrix functions \(b\) on the unit disc of the complex plane. As the authors say, the study of such families is mainly motivated from applications to unitary finite rank perturbation theory. The characterization of the absolutely continuous part of the matrix-valued Clark measure is a generalization of the well-known results for the scalar case. The results and proofs for the singular parts of matrix-valued \(\mu^{\alpha}\) are much more complicated than in the scalar case, and constitute the main focus of this paper. The authors present the description of the directional support (carrier) of the singular part of \(\mu^{\alpha}\), and a new phenomenon of the directionality appears. A Nevanlinna-type formula, expressing point masses of \(\mu^{\alpha}\) in terms of \(b\) is presented. A matrix-valued Aronszajn-Donoghue theory concerning the singular parts of the Clark measures is discussed. Sections 6 through 8 are devoted to extending the notion of Carathéodory on angular derivative to the matrix-valued setting.