Indefinite Inner Product Spaces, Schur Analysis, and Differential Equations: A Volume Dedicated to Heinz Langer [Hardcover]

This volume, which is dedicated to Heinz Langer, includes biographical material and carefully selected papers.

Heinz Langer has made fundamental contributions to operator theory. In particular, he has studied the domains of operator pencils and nonlinear eigenvalue problems, the theory of indefinite inner product spaces, operator theory in Pontryagin and Krein spaces, and applications to mathematical physics. His works include studies on and applications of Schur analysis in the indefinite setting, where the factorization theorems put forward by Krein and Langer for generalized Schur functions, and by Dijksma-Langer-Luger-Shondin, play a key role.

The contributions in this volume reflect Heinz Langers chief research interests and will appeal to a broad readership whose work involves operator theory.

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Part I - Biographical material.-?List of publications of Heinz Langer.-?Program of the Laudatio ceremony and photos.-?Heinz Langer Laudatio.- Part II - Papers.-?The inverse monodromy problem.-?The bitangential matrix Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation?problem revisited.-?Finite rank perturbations in Pontryagin spaces?and a Sturm-Liouville problem with -rational boundary conditions.-?On unimodular transformations?of conservative L-systems.-?Spectral theory of stationary random fi elds?and their generalizations. A short historical survey.-?Semicircular-like, and semicircular laws induced by?certain C*-probability spaces over the fi nite adele ring AQ.-?On the asymptotic behaviour of the zeros?of solutions of one functional-differential equation with rescaling.-?Rational q x q Carath?odory functions?and central non-negative Hermitian measures.-?On the spectrum of an operator in truncated Fock space.-?Limit properties of eigenvalues in spectral gaps.-?Self-adjoint boundary conditions for the prolate spheroid differential operators.-?An addendum to a paper by Li and Zhang.-?On accelerants and their anló‚