Time-Variant Systems and Interpolation

Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation for time-varying input-output maps: The discrete case.- 0. Introduction.- 1. Preliminaries.- 2. J-Unitary operators on ?2.- 3. Time-varying Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation.- 4. Solution of the time-varying tangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problem.- 5. An illustrative example.- References.- Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation for time-varying input-output maps: The continuous time case.- 0. Introduction.- 1. Generalized point evaluation.- 2. Bounded input-output maps.- 3. Residue calculus and diagonal expansion.- 4. J-unitary and J-inner operators.- 5. Time-varying Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation.- 6. An example.- References.- Dichotomy of systems and invertibility of linear ordinary differential operators.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Preliminaries.- 3. Invertibility of differential operators on the real line.- 4. Relations between operators on the full line and half line.- 5. Fredholm properties of differential operators on a half line.- 6. Fredholm properties of differential operators on a full line.- 7. Exponentially dichotomous operators.- 8. References.- Inertia theorems for block weighted shifts and applications.- 1. Introduction.- 2. One sided block weighted shifts.- 3. Dichotomies for left systems and two sided systems.- 4. Two sided block weighted shifts.- 5. Asymptotic inertia.- 6. References.- Interpolation for upper triangular operators.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Preliminaries.- 3. Colligations & characteristic functions.- 4. Towards interpolation.- 5. Explicit formulas for ?.- 6. Admissibility and more on general interpolation.- 7. Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.- 8. Carathéodory-Fejér interpolation.- 9. Mixed interpolation problems.- 10. Examples.- 11. Block Toeplitz & some implications.- 12. Varying coordinate spaces.- 13. References.- Minimality and realization of discrete time-varying systems.- 1. Preliminaries.- 2. Observability and reachability.- 3. Minimality for time-varying systems.- 4. Proofs of the minimality theorems.- 5. Realizations of infinite lower triangular matrices.- 6. The class of systems with constant state space dimension.- 7. Minimality and realization for periodical systems.- References.