Download or read book Factorization of Matrix and Operator Functions: The State Space Method written by Harm Bart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delineates the various types of factorization problems for matrix and operator functions. The problems originate from, or are motivated by, the theory of non-selfadjoint operators, the theory of matrix polynomials, mathematical systems and control theory, the theory of Riccati equations, inversion of convolution operators, and the theory of job scheduling in operations research. The book presents a geometric principle of factorization which has its origins in the state space theory of linear input-output systems and in the theory of characteristic operator functions.