Abstract
Fuhrmann [ Israel J. Math. 16 (1973), 162-176], and subsequently Ball and Lubin [ Pacific J. Math. 63 (1976), 309-324] have studied a class of perturbations of completely nonunitary contractions. We extend their results concerning the computation of the characteristic function by using the "Redheffer product" machinery [ J. Math. Phys. 39 (1960), 269-286]. This has been familiar to system theory experts for many years and has been recently revived by Foias and Frazho ["The Commutant Lifting Approach to Interpolation Problems," Birkhäuser, Basel, 1990] to obtain alternate proofs in the theory of intertwining dilations of contractions on a Hilbert space. The proof obtained is conceptually surprisingly simple. An application is the recapture, from a point of view different from the original one, of a result concerning de Branges′ spaces, which have received renewed attention in recent years.
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