The main concern of this book is the distribution of zeros of polynomials that are orthogonal on the unit circle with respect to an indefinite weighted scalar or inner product. The first theorem of this type, proved by M. G. Krein, was a far-reaching generalization of G. Szeg??'s result for the positive definite case. A continuous analogue of that theorem was proved by Krein and H. Langer. These results, as well as many generalizations and extensions, are thoroughly treated in this book. A unifying theme is the general problem of orthogonalization with invertible squares in modules over...

This volume, dedicated to Bernd Silbermann on his sixtieth birthday, collects research articles on Toeplitz matrices and singular integral equations written by leading area experts. The subjects of the contributions include Banach algebraic methods, Toeplitz determinants and random matrix theory, Fredholm theory and numerical analysis for singular integral equations, and efficient algorithms for linear systems with structured matrices, and reflect Bernd Silbermann's broad spectrum of research interests. The volume also contains a biographical essay and a list of publications. The book is...

This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th Conference on Problems and Methods in Mathematical Physis (11th TMP), held in Chemnitz, Germany, March 25-28th, 1999. The conference was dedicated to Siegfried Prossdorf, who made important contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of operator equations and their applications in mathematical physics and mechanics. The main part of the book comprises original research papers. The topics covered range from: integral and pseudodifferential equations; boundary value problems; operator theory; boundary element and wavelet methods;...

The present book is the first of the two volume proceedings of the Mark Krein International Conference on Operator Theory and Applications. This conference, which was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the prominent mathematician Mark Krein, was held in Odessa, Ukraine, from August 18-22, 1997. The conference focused on the main ideas, methods, results, and achievements of M.G. Krein. This first volume is devoted to the theory of differential operators and related topics. It opens with a description of the conference, biographical material and a number of survey papers about the work of...

All the important classical examples of traces and determinants sugges, Ruston and Grothendieck are exhibited. In particular, the determinants which were first introduced in their investigations of infinite systems of li near equations stemmingfrom problems in celestial mechanics are studie d. Most of FredholmFs seminal results are presented in this book by th e editorsf own means. Formulas for traces and determinants in a Hilber t space setting are readily derived, again. Also investigated are gene ralizations to Banach spaces. Furthermore, a large part of this book i s devoted to...

The book is complemented by biographical information. This volume is dedicated to Peter Lancaster, an outstanding expert in operator and matrix theory, numerical analysis and applications, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The book contains a selection of recent original research papers in linear algebra and analysis, areas in which Peter Lancaster was very active. The articles are complemented by biographical data and a list of publications. Contributed volume in honor of Peter Lancaster, an outstanding expert in operator theory, matrix theory and numerical analysis. The articles...

This monograph combines the commutant lifting theorem for operator theory and the state space method from system theory to provide a unified approach for solving both stationary and nonstationary interpolation problems with norm constraints. Included are the operator-valued versions of tangential Nevanlinna-Pick problem, the Hermite-Fejer problem, the Nehari problem, the Sarason problem, and the two-sided Nudelman problem, adn their nonstationary analogues. The main results concern the existance of solutions, the explicit construction of the central solutions in state space form, the maximum...