Table of contents : Title Page......Page 3 Copyright Page......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Editorial Preface......Page 7 Classical Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation with Real Interpolation Points......Page 8 Introduction......Page 8 1 Existence of Solutions and the Model......Page 12 2 Characterization of the Solutions by Selfadjoint Extensions......Page 17 3 The Defect Numbers of S, Canonical Extensions......Page 20 4 Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness of Solutions I......Page 24 5 Parametrization of Solutions......Page 26 6 Existence of a Solution and Reproducing Kernels......Page 35 7 Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness of Solutions II......Page 41 8 Examples......Page 49 9 Appendix: Nevanlinna Functions......Page 50 References......Page 55 The Abstract Interpolation Problem and Commutant Lifting: A Coordinate-free Approach......Page 58 Introduction......Page 58 1 The Abstract Interpolation Problem: Statementand Main Result......Page 60 2 Unitary Colligations and Abstract Scattering Systems......Page 65 3 Main Theorem on Coordinate-free AbsractInterpolation Problem......Page 75 4 The Commutant Lifting Theorem in Coordinate-free Form......Page 79 References......Page 88 On Classes of Realizable Operator-valued R-functions......Page 91 1 Introduction......Page 91 2 Preliminaries......Page 92 3 Linear Stationary Conservative Dynamic Systems......Page 102 Acknowledgement......Page 116 References......Page 116 ......Page 119 1 Introduction......Page 119 2 Preliminaries......Page 120 2.1 Derivations or 1-cocycles......Page 120 2.2 Ext lOver the Polydisk Algebra......Page 121 3 Submodules L 2JI'N......Page 122 4 Hankel Operators......Page 126 References......Page 127 Kolmogorov Decompositions and the Realization of Time Dependent Systems......Page 129 1 Introduction......Page 129 2 Realization of Lower Triangular Families......Page 132 3 Applications......Page 137 References......Page 149 Hankel Forms and Operators in Hardy Spaces with Two Szego Weights......Page 151 Introduction......Page 151 1 Notation and Basic Result......Page 152 2 Szego easures and Model Subspaces......Page 154 3 Hankel Forms and Carleson Measures in B 2 .......Page 158 4 Generalizations for Pairs of Szego Weights......Page 164 References......Page 168 The Structured Norm of a Hilbert Space Operator with respect to a Given Algebra of Operators......Page 169 1 Introduction......Page 169 2 Preliminaries......Page 171 ......Page 171 4 Finding JlDmA for R = C......Page 178 References......Page 188 Order Preserving Operator Function via Furuta Inequality A B 0 Ensures......Page 190 1 Introduction......Page 191 2 Results......Page 193 3 Proofs of results......Page 194 References......Page 199 On a Nonlinear Causal Commutant Lifting Theorem*......Page 200 1 Introduction......Page 200 2 Causal Analytic Mappings......Page 201 3 Nonlinear Causal Commutant Lifting Theorem......Page 204 4 Nonlinear Causal Hankel Mappings......Page 210 5 Nonlinear Interpolation and Robust Control......Page 214 References......Page 216 Parametrization of Solutions of the Nehari Problem and Nonorthogonal Dynamics......Page 218 Introduction......Page 218 1 Setting of the Nehari Problem......Page 218 2 Associated Isometry......Page 219 3 Unitary Extensions of V and All......Page 220 4 Motivation of the Definition of the Scattering Function......Page 225 5 Structure of Minimal Unitary Extensions of the Isometry V......Page 226 6 Scattering Function of the Colligation Ao motivation......Page 228 7 Scattering Function of the Colligation Ao formulas......Page 230 On Zeros of Defining Functions for some Hilbert Spaces of Polynomials......Page 239 1 Introduction......Page 239 2 Properties of Hypergeometric Series......Page 240 3 Proof of Theorem 1......Page 242 4 A Second Proof of Theorem 4......Page 245 References......Page 247 One or 1o Parameter Algebraic Scattering Systems and the Commutant Lifting Theorem......Page 248 1 Introduction......Page 248 2 Description of ..ext......Page 250 3 Commutant Lifting Theorem......Page 250 4 Unitary c-commuting Extension of a Pair of Isometries......Page 252 5 Two-parameter Algebraic Scattering System......Page 253 6 Description of ..ext xt for a Two-parameterAlgebraic Scattering System......Page 254 References......Page 256 On Interpolation Problems in the Complex Right Half Plane......Page 257 1 Introduction......Page 257 ......Page 258 3 Proofs......Page 260 4 Some State Space Formulas......Page 264 5 Example......Page 267 Acknowledgements......Page 267 References......Page 268 Maximum Entropy Truncable Positive Definite Sequences of Analytic Toeplitz Operators*......Page 270 1 Preliminaries......Page 270 2 Sequences of Analytic Toeplitz Operators......Page 272 ......Page 275 4 Maximum Entropy Truncable Sequences......Page 284 ......Page 294 References......Page 296 Subdecomposable Operators and Rationally Invariant Subspaces......Page 298 1 Introduction......Page 298 2 A Matrix Model for Decomposable Operators......Page 299 3 Rationally Invariant Subspaces......Page 304 4 Pure Cyclic Hyponormal Operators......Page 308 References......Page 309