The Commutant Lifting Approach to Interpolation Problems: Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, cartea 44

I. Analysis of the Caratheodory Interpolation Problem.- II. Analysis of the Caratheodory Interpolation Problem for Positive-Real Functions.- III. Schur Numbers, Geophysics and Inverse Scattering Problems.- IV. Contractive Expansions on Euclidian and Hilbert Space.- V. Contractive One Step Intertwining Liftings.- VI. Isometric and Unitary Dilations.- VII. The Commutant Lifting Theorem.- VIII. Geometric Applications of the Commutant lifting Theorem.- IX. H? Optimization and Functional Models.- X. Some Classical Interpolation Problems.- XI. Interpolation as a Momentum Problem.- XII. Numerical Algorithms for H? Optimization in Control Theory.- XIII. Inverse Scattering Algorithms for the Commutant Lifting Theorem.- XIV. The Schur Representation.- XV. A Geometric Approach to Positive Definite Sequences.- XVI. Positive Definite Block Matrices.- XVII. A Physical Basis for the Layered Medium Model.- References.- Notation.