𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Structure and Entropy for Positive-Definite Toeplitz Kernels on Free Semigroups

✍ Scribed by Gelu Popescu


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
198 KB
Volume
254
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-247X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


In this article, we study the structure of positive-definite Toeplitz kernels on free Ž . semigroups called also multi-Toeplitz and its implications in noncommutative dilation theory, harmonic analysis on Fock spaces, prediction and interpolation theory for stationary stochastic processes. A parametrization of positive-definite multi-Toeplitz kernels in terms of generalized Schur sequences of contractions is obtained. This leads to explicit minimal Naimark dilations, Cholesky factorizations, Szego type limit theorems, and entropy for positive-definite multi-Toeplitz kernels.

Maximal outer factors are associated with positive-definite multi-Toeplitz kernels and are used to obtain inner᎐outer factorization for operators on Fock spaces with coefficients in Hilbert spaces. The Kolmogorov᎐Wiener prediction problem for stochastic processes having as covariance kernels positive-definite multi-Toeplitz kernels is considered. The predication-error operator is calculated in terms of Ž . Schur parameters resp., maximal outer factor associated with the covariance kernel of the process, and a connection with a Szego type infimum problem is ëstablished.

We solve the Caratheodory interpolation problem for positive-definite ḿulti-Toeplitz kernels, we obtain a parametrization of all solutions in terms of Schur sequences, and we find the maximal entropy solution. The results of this article can be used to develop a theory of stochastic n-linear systems.