A Lie-theoretic setting for the classical interpolation theories

✍ Scribed by Robert Hermann

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 705 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-8019
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00047160

✦ Synopsis

The three classical interpolation theories -Newton-Lagrange, Thiele and Pick-Nevanlinna -are developed within a common Lie-theoretic framework. They essentially involve a recursive process, each step geometrically providing an analytic map from a Riemann surface to a Grassmann manifold. The operation which passes from the (n -1)st to the nth involves the action of what the physicists call a group of gauge transformations. There is also a first-order difference operator which maps the set of solutions of the nth order interpolation to the (n -1)st: This difference operator is, in each case, covariant with respect to the action of the Lie groups involved. For Newton-Lagrange interpolation, this Lie group is the group of atiine transformations of the complex plane; for Thiele interpolation the group SL(2, C) of projective transformations; and for Pick-Nevanlinna interpolation the subgroup SU(1, 1) of SL(2, C) which leaves invariant the disk in the complex plane. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1980). 22E70, 65D05.