Multivariable Generalizations of the Schur Class: Positive Kernel Characterization and Transfer Function Realization

DOI10.1007/978-3-7643-8893-5_2MaRDI QIDQ3612909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph A. Ball, Animikh Biswas, Quanlei Fang, Sanne ter Horst

Publication date 11 March 2009

Published in Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2042

completely positive definite kernel contractive multiplier Hilbert \(C^*\)-module reproducing kernel Hilbert correspondence von Neumann inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(C^*)-modules (46L08) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Linear operator approximation theory (47A58) Linear operators in reproducing-kernel Hilbert spaces (including de Branges, de Branges-Rovnyak, and other structured spaces) (47B32) Crossed product algebras (analytic crossed products) (47L65) Operator-theoretic methods (93B28) Linear systems in control theory (93C05)

Abstract: The operator-valued Schur-class is defined to be the set of holomorphic functions

S

mapping the unit disk into the space of contraction operators between two Hilbert spaces. There are a number of alternate characterizations: the operator of multiplication by

S

defines a contraction operator between two Hardy Hilbert spaces,

S

satisfies a von Neumann inequality, a certain operator-valued kernel associated with

S

is positive-definite, and

S

can be realized as the transfer function of a dissipative (or even conservative) discrete-time linear input/state/output linear system. Various multivariable generalizations of this class have appeared recently,one of the most encompassing being that of Muhly and Solel where the unit disk is replaced by the strict unit ball of the elements of a dual correspondence

E^{s i g m a}

associated with a

W^{*}

-correspondence

E

over a

W^{*}

-algebra

c A

together with a

*

-representation

s i g m a

of

c A

. The main new point which we add here is the introduction of the notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert correspondence and identification of the Muhly-Solel Hardy spaces as reproducing kernel Hilbert correspondences associated with a completely positive analogue of the classical Szeg"o kernel. In this way we are able to make the analogy between the Muhly-Solel Schur class and the classical Schur class more complete. We also illustrate the theory by specializing it to some well-studied special cases; in some instances there result new kinds of realization theorems.

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