Characteristic Functions, Scattering Functions and Transfer Functions [electronic resource] : The Moshe Livsic Memorial Volume / edited by Daniel Alpay, Victor Vinnikov.

Differential-difference Equations in Entire Functions -- Inverse Stieltjes-like Functions and Inverse Problems for Systems with Schrödinger Operator -- Bi-Isometries and Commutant Lifting -- The One-sided Ergodic Hilbert Transform of Normal Contractions -- Model Reduction in Symbolically Semi-separable Systems with Application to Pre-conditioners for 3D Sparse Systems of Equations -- Pick Matrices for Schur Multipliers -- The Stable Rank of a Nest Algebra and Strong Stabilization of Linear Time-varying Systems -- Convexity of Ranges and Connectedness of Level Sets of Quadratic Forms -- The Schur Algorithm in Terms of System Realizations -- On Some Interrelations Between J-Potapov Functions and J-Potapov Sequences -- A Solvable Model for Scattering on a Junction and a Modified Analytic Perturbation Procedure -- Integral Equations in the Theory of Levy Processes -- ?-spread of Sets in Metric Spaces and Critical Values of Smooth Functions.