Generalized Schur Functions and Related de Branges-Rovnyak Spaces in the Banach Space Setting

Abstract

We study the analogues of de Branges-Rovnyak spaces in the Banach space case. An important role is played by self-adjoint operators from the dual of a Banach space into the Banach space itself. A factorization theorem for such operators is proved in the case when they have a finite number of negative squares.