Rational Cayley inner Herglotz-Agler functions: positive-kernel decompositions and transfer-function realizations (Q2249729)

The authors consider the Bessmertnyĭ class, which consists of rational matrix-valued functions in several complex variables, say \(d\), which are representable as the Schur complement of a block of a linear pencil \(A(z)=z_1A_1+\cdots+z_dA_d\), whose coefficients \(A_k\) are positive semidefinite matrices. Recalling that a Cayley inner function is a function holomorphic on the right poly-halfplane and takes skew-Hermitian matrix values on \((i\mathbb{R})^d\) (equivalently, it is the double Cayley transform of an inner function on the unit polydisk), the authors show that the Bessmertnyĭ class coincides with the subclass of rational functions in the Herglotz-Agler class over the right poly-halfplane, which are homogeneous of degree one and which are Cayley inner. Using Agler-Knese's characterization of rational inner Schur-Agler functions on the polydisk (extended to the matrix-valued case) and applying appropriate Cayley transformations, the authors obtain characterizations of matrix-valued rational Cayley inner Herglotz-Agler functions, in terms of transfer-function realizations and in terms of positive-kernel decompositions. In particular, they extend Bessmertnyĭ's representation to rational Cayley inner Herglotz-Agler functions on the right poly-halfplane.