A rich structure related to the construction of analytic matrix functions (Q502616)

Modelling engineering applications often require the construction of analytic matrix-valued functions on particular sets, e.g., on the unit disc. The so-obtained problems are closely related to the classical Nevanlinna-Pick problem. The authors study interpolation problems for analytic \(2\times 2\)-matrix-valued functions. They state a solvability criterion for one of these problems and describe the rich structure of relations between the following four objects: the set of analytic functions from the disc into a domain in \(\mathbb C\), the \(2\times 2\)-matrix Schur class, the Schur class of the bidisc, and the set of pairs of positive kernels on the bidisc subject to a boundedness condition.