Abstract: | Let p, q be arbitrary parameter sets, and let be a Hilbert space. We say that x = (xi)i?q, xi ? , is a bounded operator-forming vector (?Fq) if the Gram matrix 〈x, x〉 = [(xi, xj)]i?q,j?q is the matrix of a bounded (necessarily ≥ 0) operator on , the Hilbert space of square-summable complex-valued functions on q. Let A be p × q, i.e., let A be a linear operator from to . Then exists a linear operator ǎ from (the Banach space) Fq to Fp on (A) = {x:x ? Fq, is p × q bounded on } such that y = ǎx satisfies yj?σ(x) = {space spanned by the xi}, 〈y, x〉 = A〈x, x〉 and . This is a generalization of our earlier [J. Multivariate Anal.4 (1974), 166–209; 6 (1976), 538–571] results for the case of a spectral measure concentrated on one point. We apply these tools to investigate q-variate wide-sense Markov processes. |