In the classical dynamic systems theory, precise information about a system can be deduced from its input–output map. In fact, for minimal systems, a complete pole-zero theory can be constructed using polynomial coprime factorization techniques, together with algebraic properties of the state space module. In this paper, an infinite-dimensional theory in the same style is presented whereby the input–output maps are assumed to exhibit some energy conservation properties and whereby these maps are ascertained to belong to a class of systems with nontrivial nullspace, called “roomy” systems. As a result, a coprime factorization theory can be deduced based not on properties of polynomials but of analytical functions, a complete polar description of the system can be given and a zero description for a somewhat more restricted class. The mathematical tools used lean heavily on Helson and Lowdenslaeger’s invariant subspace theory of Hardy spaces which quite naturally comes into play through the Bochner–Chandrase...
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