Schur Analysis Research Articles

Schur analysis over the unit spectral ball

We begin a study of Schur analysis when the variable is now a matrix rather than a complex number. We define the corresponding Hardy space, Schur multipliers and their realizations, and interpolation. Possible applications of the present work include matrices of quaternions, matrices of split quaternions, and other algebras of hypercomplex numbers.

On axially rational regular functions and Schur analysis in the Clifford-Appell setting

In this paper we start the study of Schur analysis for Cauchy–Fueter regular quaternionic-valued functions, i.e. null solutions of the Cauchy–Fueter operator in R4\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$${\\mathbb {R}}^4$$\\end{document}. The novelty of the approach developed in this paper is that we consider axially regular functions, i.e. functions spanned by the so-called Clifford-Appell polynomials. This type of functions arises naturally from two well-known extension results in hypercomplex analysis: the Fueter mapping theorem and the generalized Cauchy–Kovalevskaya (GCK) extension. These results allow one to obtain axially regular functions starting from analytic functions of one real or complex variable. Precisely, in the Fueter theorem two operators play a role. The first one is the so-called slice operator, which extends holomorphic functions of one complex variable to slice hyperholomorphic functions of a quaternionic variable. The second operator is the Laplace operator in four real variables, that maps slice hyperholomorphic functions to axially regular functions. On the other hand, the generalized CK-extension gives a characterization of axially regular functions in terms of their restriction to the real line. In this paper we use these two extensions to define two notions of rational function in the regular setting. For our purposes, the notion coming from the generalized CK-extension is the most suitable. Our results allow to consider the Hardy space, Schur multipliers and their relation with realizations in the framework of Clifford-Appell polynomials. We also introduce two notions of regular Blaschke factors, through the Fueter theorem and the generalized CK-extension.

Schur analysis and discrete analytic functions: Rational functions and co-isometric realizations

We define and study rational discrete analytic functions and prove the existence of a coisometric realization for discrete analytic Schur multipliers.

Interpolation with symmetry and a Herglotz theorem in the bicomplex setting

We present a new approach to Schur analysis in the bicomplex setting, reducing the various underlying questions to interpolation problems in the complex setting with an appropriate symmetry condition.

On a Polyanalytic Approach to Noncommutative de Branges\u2013Rovnyak Spaces and Schur Analysis

In this paper we begin the study of Schur analysis and of de Branges–Rovnyak spaces in the framework of Fueter hyperholomorphic functions. The difference with other approaches is that we consider the class of functions spanned by Appell-like polynomials. This approach is very efficient from various points of view, for example in operator theory, and allows us to make connections with the recently developed theory of slice polyanalytic functions. We tackle a number of problems: we describe a Hardy space, Schur multipliers and related results. We also discuss Blaschke functions, Herglotz multipliers and their associated kernels and Hilbert spaces. Finally, we consider the counterpart of the half-space case, and the corresponding Hardy space, Schur multipliers and Carathéodory multipliers.

Superoscillations and Analytic Extension in Schur Analysis

We give applications of the theory of superoscillations to various questions, namely extension of positive definite functions, interpolation of polynomials and also of R-functions; we also discuss possible applications to signal theory and prediction theory of stationary stochastic processes. In all cases, we give a constructive procedure, by way of a limiting process, to get the required results.

Application of model reduction for robust control of self-balancing two-wheeled bicycle

In recent years, balance control of two-wheeled bicycle has received more attention of scientists. One difficulty of this problem is the control object is unstable and constantly impacted by noise. To solve this problem, the authors often use robust control algorithms. However, robust controller of self-balancing two-wheeled bicycle are often complex and higher order so affect to quality during real controlling. The article introduces the stochastic balanced truncation algorithm based on Schur analysis and applies this algorithm to reduce order higher order robust controller in control balancing two-wheeled bicycle problem. The simulation results show that the reduced 4th and 5th order controller arcoording to the stochastic balanced truncation algorithm based on Schur analysis can control the two-wheeled bicycle model. The reduced 3rd order controller cannot control the balance of the two-wheeled bicycle model. The reduced 4th and 5th order controller can replace the original controller while the performance of the control system is ensured. Using reduced 5th, 4th order controller will make the program code simpler, reducing the calculation time of the self-balancing two-wheel control system. The simulation results show the correctness of the model reduction algorithm and the robust control algorithm of two-wheeled self-balancing two-wheeled bicycle.

A Schur–Nevanlinna Type Algorithm for the Truncated Matricial Hausdorff Moment Problem

The main goal of this paper is to achieve a parametrization of the solution set of the truncated matricial Hausdorff moment problem in the non-degenerate and degenerate situations. We treat the even and the odd cases simultaneously. Our approach is based on Schur analysis methods. More precisely, we use two interrelated versions of Schur-type algorithms, namely an algebraic one and a function-theoretic one. The algebraic version, worked out in our former paper (Fritzsche et al.: Linear Algebra Appl 590:133–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2019.12.027, 2020), is an algorithm which is applied to finite or infinite sequences of complex matrices. The construction and discussion of the function-theoretic version is a central theme of this paper. This leads us to a complete description via Stieltjes transform of the solution set of the moment problem under consideration. Furthermore, we discuss special solutions in detail.

Positivity, Rational Schur Functions, Blaschke Factors, and Other Related Results in the Grassmann Algebra

We begin a study of Schur analysis in the setting of the Grassmann algebra, when the latter is completed with respect to the $1$-norm. We focus on the rational case. We start with a theorem on invertibility in the completed algebra, and define a notion of positivity in this setting. We present a series of applications pertaining to Schur analysis, including a counterpart of the Schur algorithm, extension of matrices and rational functions. Other topics considered include Wiener algebra, reproducing kernels Banach modules, and Blaschke factors.

Perturbation of normal quaternionic operators

The theory of quaternionic operators has applications in several different fields, such as quantum mechanics, fractional evolution problems, and quaternionic Schur analysis, just to name a few. The main difference between complex and quaternionic operator theory is based on the definition of a spectrum. In fact, in quaternionic operator theory the classical notion of a resolvent operator and the one of a spectrum need to be replaced by the two S S -resolvent operators and the S S -spectrum. This is a consequence of the noncommutativity of the quaternionic setting. Indeed, the S S -spectrum of a quaternionic linear operator T T is given by the noninvertibility of a second order operator. This presents new challenges which make our approach to perturbation theory of quaternionic operators different from the classical case. In this paper we study the problem of perturbation of a quaternionic normal operator in a Hilbert space by making use of the concepts of S S -spectrum and of slice hyperholomorphicity of the S S -resolvent operators. For this new setting we prove results on the perturbation of quaternionic normal operators by operators belonging to a Schatten class and give conditions which guarantee the existence of a nontrivial hyperinvariant subspace of a quaternionic linear operator.

BMO- and VMO-spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions

In this paper we continue the study of important Banach spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions on the quaternionic unit ball by investigating the BMO- and VMO-spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions. We discuss in particular conformal invariance and a refined characterization of these spaces in terms of Carleson measures. Finally we show the relations with the Bloch and Dirichlet space and the duality relation with the Hardy space $\mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb{D})$. The importance of these spaces in the classical theory is well known. It is therefore worthwhile to study their slice hyperholomorphic counterparts, in particular because slice hyperholomorphic functions were found to have several applications in operator theory and Schur analysis.

Reduced order modelling based control of two wheeled mobile robot

This paper proposes a novel technique to design a pre-specified structure controller for balancing control of two wheeled mobile robot via reduced order modelling using cuckoo search algorithm. As the two wheeled mobile robot is an unstable system with various uncertainties and the controllers, available in the literature, comes up with higher order, the overall system becomes complex from analysis and manufacturing point of view. Therefore, in this paper, a lower order pre-specified structure controller is designed which is efficient enough to handle uncertain dynamics. The results of proposed controllers are compared with the results of controller designed by genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, Schur analysis, balanced truncation, modal truncation and conventional PD controllers. It is revealed that the proposed controller exhibit better performance comparatively. The performance of the higher and lower order controllers is also analysed with perturbed two wheeled mobile robot in terms of time response specifications and performance indices such as integral square error, integral absolute error and integral time absolute error.

On a simultaneous approach to the even and odd truncated matricial Stieltjes moment problem II: An α-Schur–Stieltjes-type algorithm for sequences of holomorphic matrix-valued functions

The main goal of this paper is to achieve a simultaneous treatment of the even and odd truncated matricial Stieltjes moment problems in the most general case. These results are generalizations of results of Chen and Hu [5,19] which considered the particular case α=0. Our approach is based on Schur analysis methods. More precisely, we use two interrelated versions of Schur-type algorithms, namely an algebraic one and a function-theoretic one. The algebraic version was worked out in a former paper of the authors. It is an algorithm which is applied to finite or infinite sequences of complex matrices. The construction and investigation of the function-theoretic version of our Schur-type algorithm is a central theme of this paper. This algorithm will be applied to relevant subclasses of holomorphic matrix-valued functions of the Stieltjes class. Using recent results on the holomorphicity of the Moore–Penrose inverse of matrix-valued Stieltjes functions, we obtain a complete description of the solution set of the moment problem under consideration in the most general situation.

Julia theory for slice regular functions

The theory of slice regular functions is nowadays widely studied and has found elegant applications to functional calculus for quaternionic linear operators and Schur analysis. However, much less is known about their boundary behaviors. In this paper, we initiate the study of Julia theory for slice regular functions. More precisely, we establish the quaternionic versions of the Julia lemma, the Julia-Caratheodory theorem, the boundary Schwarz lemma, the Hopf lemma, and the Burns-Krantz rigidity theorem for slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball B ⊂ H and of the right half-space H+. We provide an explicit example to show that in quaternionic Hopf lemma the slice derivative of a slice regular function f at the boundary fixed point may not be real, in contrast to the complex version. Our result implies that the commonly believed version of the Hopf lemma turns out to be totally wrong. This new quaternionic version of the Hopf lemma also improves Osserman estimate even in the complex setting and is essentially the first significant theorem belonging to the theory of quaternions itself other than the theory of complex analysis, since the result involves the Lie brackets which reflect the non-commutative feature of quaternions.

Recent development of the theory of Slice regular functions

Theory of Slice regular functions is a natural generalization of complex analysis from complex numbers to quaternions. It was introduced initially by Gentili and Struppa in 2006, and has been extensively studied and has found its elegant applications to functional calculus for quaternionic linear operators, operator theory, Schur analysis and quaternionic quantum mechanics. Meanwhile, the notion of Slice regularity was also extended to functions of an octonionic variable and to the setting of Clifford algebras as well as to the setting of alternative real algebras. In this survey, we shall focus mainly on our recent results in the theory of Slice regular functions. Firstly, we establish the Borel-Caratheodory inequality and the sharp growth and distortion theorems for Slice regular extensions of normalized biholomorphic functions on the unit disc in the setting of quaternions. In addition, we study the boundary behavior of Slice regular functions and obtain the Julia lemma, the Julia-Caratheodory theorem as well as the boundary Schwarz lemma. In particular, we find that the boundary Schwarz lemma does not ensure the Slice derivative of a Slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball B⊂H at its boundary fixed point to be necessarily a real number, in contrast to that in the complex case. Finally, we study theory of function spaces of Slice regular functions and establish the Forelli-Rudin type estimates.

Quaternionic Hardy spaces in the open unit ball and half space and Blaschke products

The Hardy spaces H2(B) and H2(H+), where B and H+ denote, respectively, the open unit ball of the quaternions and the half space of quaternions with positive real part, as well as Blaschke products, have been intensively studied in a series of papers where they are used as a tool to prove other results in Schur analysis. This paper gives an overview on the topic, collecting the various results available.

Bloch, Besov and Dirichlet Spaces of Slice Hyperholomorphic Functions

In this paper we begin the study of some important Banach spaces of slice hyperholomorphic functions, namely the Bloch, Besov and weighted Bergman spaces, and we also consider the Dirichlet space, which is a Hilbert space. The importance of these spaces is well known, and thus their study in the framework of slice hyperholomorphic functions is relevant, especially in view of the fact that this class of functions has recently found several applications in operator theory and in Schur analysis. We also discuss the property of invariance of these function spaces with respect to Möbius maps by using a suitable notion of composition.

On discrete analytic functions: Products, rational functions and reproducing kernels

We introduce a family of discrete analytic functions, called expandable discrete analytic functions, which includes discrete analytic polynomials, and define two products in this family. The first one is defined in a way similar to the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya product of hyperholomorphic functions, and allows us to define rational discrete analytic functions. To define the second product we need a new space of entire functions which is contractively included in the Fock space. We study in this space some counterparts of Schur analysis.

Krein–Langer Factorization and Related Topics in the Slice Hyperholomorphic Setting

We study various aspects of Schur analysis in the slice hyperholomorphic setting. We present two sets of results: first, we give new results on the functional calculus for slice hyperholomorphic functions. In particular, we introduce and study some properties of the Riesz projectors. Then we prove a Beurling–Lax type theorem, the so-called structure theorem. A crucial fact which allows to prove our results is the fact that the right spectrum of a quaternionic linear operator and the point S-spectrum coincide. Finally, we study the Krein–Langer factorization for slice hyperholomorphic generalized Schur functions. Both the Beurling–Lax type theorem and the Krein–Langer factorization are far-reaching results which have not been proved in the quaternionic setting using notions of hyperholomorphy other than slice hyperholomorphy.

Schur Functions and Their Realizations in the Slice Hyperholomorphic Setting

In this paper we start the study of Schur analysis in the quaternionic setting using the theory of slice hyperholomorphic functions. The novelty of our approach is that slice hyperholomorphic functions allow to write realizations in terms of a suitable resolvent, the so called S-resolvent operator and to extend several results that hold in the complex case to the quaternionic case. We discuss reproducing kernels and positive definite functions in this setting and we show how they can be obtained using the extension operator and the slice hyperholomorphic product. We define Schur multipliers, and find their co-isometric realization in terms of the associated de Branges–Rovnyak space.