Boundary Nevanlinna�CPick interpolation via reduction and augmentation

We give an elementary proof of Sarason??s solvability criterion for the Nevanlinna?CPick problem with boundary interpolation nodes and boundary target values. We also give a concrete parametrization of all solutions of such a problem. The proofs are based on a reduction method due to Julia and Nevanlinna. Reduction of functions corresponds to Schur complementation of the corresponding Pick matrices.     

A new formal approach to the rational interpolation problem

Summary An elegant and fast recursive algorithm is developed to solve the rational interpolation problem in a complementary way compared to existing methods. We allow confluent interpolation points, poles, and infinity as one of the interpolation points. Not only one specific solution is given but a nice parametrization of all solutions. We also give a linear algebra interpretation of the problem showing that our algorithm can also be used to handle a specific class of structured matrices.     

Interpolation Problems for Schur Multipliers on the Drury-Arveson Space: from Nevanlinna-Pick to Abstract Interpolation Problem

We survey various increasingly more general operator-theoretic formulations of generalized left-tangential Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation for Schur multipliers on the Drury-Arveson space. An adaptation of the methods of Potapov and Dym leads to a chain-matrix linear-fractional parametrization for the set of all solutions for all but the last of the formulations for the case where the Pick operator is invertible. The last formulation is a multivariable analogue of the Abstract Interpolation Problem formulated by Katsnelson, Kheifets and Yuditskii for the single-variable case; we obtain a Redheffer-type linear-fractional parametrization for the set of all solutions (including in degenerate cases) via an adaptation of ideas of Arov and Grossman.      

A moving pseudo‐boundary method of fundamental solutions for void detection

We propose a new moving pseudo‐boundary method of fundamental solutions (MFS) for the determination of the boundary of a void. This problem can be modeled as an inverse boundary value problem for harmonic functions. The algorithm for imaging the interior of the medium also makes use of radial polar parametrization of the unknown void shape in two dimensions. The center of this radial polar parametrization is considered to be unknown. We also include the contraction and dilation factors to be part of the unknowns in the resulting nonlinear least‐squares problem. This approach addresses the major problem of locating the pseudo‐boundary in the MFS in a natural way, because the inverse problem in question is nonlinear anyway. The feasibility of this new method is illustrated by several numerical examples. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2013     

Puiseux Expansions and Nonisolated Points in Algebraic Varieties

We consider the problem of deciding whether a common solution to a multivariate polynomial equation system is isolated or not. We present conditions on a given truncated Puiseux series vector centered at the point ensuring that it is not isolated. In addition, in the case that the set of all common solutions of the system has dimension 1, we obtain further conditions specifying to what extent the given vector of truncated Puiseux series coincides with the initial part of a parametrization of a curve of solutions passing through the point.     

Generalized model matching and (F,G)-invariant submodules for linear systems over rings

A generalized version of the exact model matching problem (GEMMP) is considered for linear multivariable systems over an arbitrary commutative ring K with identity. Reduced forms of this problem are introduced, and a characterization of all solutions and minimal order solutions is given, both with and without the properness constraint on the solutions, in terms of linear equations over K and K-modules. An approach to the characterization of all stable solutions is presented which, under a certain Bezout condition and a freeness condition, provides a parametrization of all stable solutions. The results provide an explicit parametrization of all solutions and all stable solutions in case K is a field, without the Bezout condition. This is achieved through a very simple characterization and a generalization to an arbitrary field K of the “fixed poles” of the model matching problem in terms of invariant factors of a certain polynomial matrix. The results also show that whenever the GEMMP has a solution, there exist solutions whose poles can be chosen arbitrarily as far as they contain the “fixed poles” with the right multiplicities (in the algebraic closure of K). Implications of these results in regard to inverse systems are shown. Equivalent simpler forms (in state space form) of the problem are shown to be obtainable. A theory of finitely generated (F,G)-invariant submodules for linear systems over rings is developed, and the geometric equivalent of the model matching problem—the dynamic cover problem—is formulated, to which the results of the previous sections provide a solution in the reduced case.     

The Moment Problem Associated with the q -Laguerre Polynomials

Abstract. We consider the indeterminate Stieltjes moment problem associated with the q -Laguerre polynomials. A transformation of the set of solutions, which has all the classical solutions as fixed points, is established and we present a method to construct, for instance, continuous singular solutions. The connection with the moment problem associated with the Stieltjes—Wigert polynomials is studied; we show how to come from q -Laguerre solutions to Stieltjes—Wigert solutions by letting the parameter α —> ∞ , and we explain how to lift a Stieltjes—Wigert solution to a q -Laguerre solution at the level of Pick functions. Based on two generating functions, expressions for the four entire functions from the Nevanlinna parametrization are obtained.     

Mixed Löwner and Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation

A mixed type, L?wner and Nevanlinna-Pick directional two-sided interpolation problem is considered. A necessary and sufficient condition for the problem to have a solution is established, in terms of properties of the Pick kernel to the problem. As well, a parametrization of the set of all real rational solutions of minimal degree is given. The corresponding Nevanlinna-Pick boundary-interior interpolation problem is also considered and a solvability condition for it is obtained. The approach to the problem is via functional Hilbert spaces.     

The time-varying discrete four block Nehari problem: A generalized Popov-Yakubovich type approach

The paper provides necessary and sufficient solvability conditions for the time-variant discrete four block Nehari problem in terms of the existence of the stabilizing solutions to two coupled Riccati equations. A parametrization of the class of all solutions is also given. The results are easily obtained from a signature condition — a generalized Popov Yakubovich type argument-imposed on an appropiate rational node. The present development may be seen as an alternative of the theory developed by Gohberg, Kaashoek and Woerdeman [15].     

Interpolation Problems for Certain Classes of Slice Hyperholomorphic Functions

A general interpolation problem (which includes as particular cases the Nevanlinna–Pick and Carathéodory–Fejér interpolation problems) is considered in two classes of slice hyperholomorphic functions of the unit ball of the quaternions. In the Hardy space of the unit ball we present a Beurling–Lax type parametrization of all solutions, and the formula for the minimal norm solution. In the class of functions slice hyperholomorphic in the unit ball and bounded by one in modulus there (that is, in the class of Schur functions in the present framework) we present a necessary and sufficient condition for the problem to have a solution, and describe the set of all solutions in the indeterminate case.     

The Moment Problem Associated with the q -Laguerre Polynomials

   Abstract. We consider the indeterminate Stieltjes moment problem associated with the q -Laguerre polynomials. A transformation of the set of solutions, which has all the classical solutions as fixed points, is established and we present a method to construct, for instance, continuous singular solutions. The connection with the moment problem associated with the Stieltjes—Wigert polynomials is studied; we show how to come from q -Laguerre solutions to Stieltjes—Wigert solutions by letting the parameter α —> ∞ , and we explain how to lift a Stieltjes—Wigert solution to a q -Laguerre solution at the level of Pick functions. Based on two generating functions, expressions for the four entire functions from the Nevanlinna parametrization are obtained.     

Tight Frames of Polynomials and the Truncated Trigonometric Moment Problem

A simple parametrization is given for the set of positive measures with finite support on the circle group T that are solutions of the truncated trigonometric moment problem: where the parameters are, up to nonzero multiplicative constants, the polynomials whose roots all have a modulus less than one. This result is then used to characterize, on a certain natural Hilbert space of polynomials associated with the problem, all finite "weighted" tight frames of evaluation polynomials. Finally, a new and simple way of parametrizing the whole set of positive Borel measures on T, solutions of the given moment problem is deduced, via a limiting argument.     

A harmonic-type maximal principle in the three chains completion problem

In this note, we prove a harmonic-type maximal principle for the Schur parametrization of all contractive interpolants in the three chains completion problem (see [4]), which is analogous to the maximal principle proven in [2] in case of the Schur parametrization of all contractive intertwining liftings in the commutant lifting theorem.     

A modular curve of level 9 and the class number one problem

In this note we give an explicit parametrization of the modular curve associated to the normalizer of a non-split Cartan subgroup of level 9. We determine all integral points of this modular curve. As an application, we give an alternative solution to the class number one problem.     

Parametrization of reflection groups acting in a disk

We study parametrizations of conjugacy classes of reflection groups acting in a disk or a half-plane. The most natural parametrization can be expressed in terms of multipliers of the transformations belonging to the group in question. We call such a parametrization geometric, and we study the problem of finding a minimal geometric parametrization. Our methods are completely elementary and the results are general in that the groups under consideration need not be discontinuous.Subject classification: primary 30F35, secondary 32G13, 30F10     

J-inner matrix functions, interpolation and inverse problems for canonical systems, III: More on the inverse monodromy problem

This paper is a continuation of our study of the inverse monodromy problem for canonical systems of integral and differential equations which appeared in a recent issue of this journal. That paper established a parametrization of the set of all solutions to the inverse monodromy for canonical integral systems in terms of two continuous chains of matrix valued inner functions in the special case that the monodromy matrix was strongly regular (and the signature matrixJ was not definite). The correspondence between the chains and the solutions of this monodromy problem is one to one and onto. In this paper we study the solutions of this inverse problem for several different classes of chains which are specified by imposing assorted growth conditions and symmetries on the monodromy matrix and/or the matrizant (i.e., the fundamental solution) of the underlying equation. These external conditions serve to either fix or limit the class of admissible chains without computing them explicitly. This is useful because typically the chains are not easily accessible.     

Modified Wave Operators Without Loss of Regularity for Some Long-Range Hartree Equations: I

We reconsider the theory of scattering for some long-range Hartree equations with potential |x|^?γ with 1/2 <  γ <  1. More precisely we study the local Cauchy problem with infinite initial time, which is the main step in the construction of the modified wave operators. We solve that problem in the whole subcritical range without loss of regularity between the asymptotic state and the solution, thereby recovering a result of Nakanishi. Our method starts from a different parametrization of the solutions, already used in our previous papers. This reduces the proofs to energy estimates and avoids delicate phase estimates.     

On singular points of quasilinear differential and differential-algebraic equations

We show how certain singularities of quasilinear differential and differential-algberaic equations can be resolved by taking the solutions to be integral manifolds of certain distributions rather than curves with specific parametrization.