Table of Contents Linear Algebra and its Applications

VOLUMES 203-204, MAY-JUNE, 1994

Third Special Issue on Linear
Systems and Control, Part I

Special Issue Editors:
A. C. Antoulas, M. L. J. Hautus, P. A. Fuhrmann,
and Y. Yamamoto


Preface 1

Daniel Alpay and Vladimir Bolotnikov (Beer-Sheva, Israel)
On a General Moment Problem and Certain Matrix Equations 3

A. C. Antoulas (Houston, Texas)
A New Approach to Modeling for Control 45

J. A. Ball (Blacksburg, Virginia), M. A. Kaashoek (Amsterdam,
the Netherlands), G. Groenewald (Bellville, South Africa), and
J. Kim (Kwangju, Korea)
Column Reduced Rational Matrix Function With Given Null-Pole Data
in the Complex Plane 67

Joseph A. Ball (Blacksburg, Virginia), Marek Rakowski, and Bostwick F.
Wyman (Columbus, Ohio)
Coupling Operators, Wedderburn-Forney Spaces, and Generalized
Inverses 111

Wu Baowei (Xian, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China)
Some Properties of Linear Systems Defined Over a Commutative
Banach Algebra 139

Tibor Boros, Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath (Stanford, California)
Structured Matrices and Unconstrained Rational Interpolation Problems 155

Roger Brockett (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Differential Equations and Matrix Inequalities on Isospectral Families 189

Chin Chang and Tryphon T. Georgiou (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Geometric Aspects of the Caratheodory Extension Problem 209

Guanrong Chen (Houston, Texas) and Cetin Kaya Koc
(Corvallis, Oregon)
Computing Matrix-Valued Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation 253

Gong-ning Chen and Hui-pin Zhang (Beijing, China)
More on Loewner Matrices 265

Carmen Coll, Rafael Bru, Elena Sanchez, and Vicente Hernandez
(Valencia, Spain)
Discrete-Time Linear Periodic Realization in the Frequency Domain 301

Ruth F. Curtain and Alejandro Rodriguez (Groningen, the Netherlands)
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for J-Spectral Factorizations With
a J-Lossless Property for Infinite-Dimensional Systems in Continuous
and Discrete Time 327

Leonid Faybusovich (Notre Dame, Indiana)
Rational Functions, Toda Flows, and LR-like Algorithms 359

Avraham Feintuch (Beer-Sheva, Israel)
Strong Graph Representations for Linear Time-Varying Systems 385

Sven Feldmann (Stuttgart, Germany) and George Heinig
(Leipzig, Germany)
Uniqueness Properties of Minimal Partial Realizations 401

Michel Fliess (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Une Interpretation Algebrique de la Transformation de Laplace
et des Matrices de Transfert 429

Ciprian Foias (Bloomington, Indiana), Arthur Frazho (West Lafayette,
Indiana), and Allen Tannenbaum (Haifa, Israel)
On Combined H-H2 Suboptimal Interpolants 443

P. A. Fuhrmann (Beer-Sheva, Israel)
A Duality Theory for Robust Stabilization and Model Reduction 471

Hisaya Fujioka and Shinji Hara (Yokohama, Japan)
State Covariance Assignment Problem With Measurement Noise:
A Unified Approach Based on a Symmetric Matrix Equation 579

Ton Geerts (Tilburg, the Netherlands)
Linear-Quadratic Control With and Without Stability Subject to General
Implicit Continuous-Time Systems: Coordinate-Free Interpretations of the
Optimal Costs in Terms of Dissipation Inequality and Linear Matrix
Inequality: Existence and Uniqueness of Optimal Controls and
State Trajectories 607

Tomomichi Hagiwara and Mituhiko Araki (Kyoto, Japan)
A Successive Optimal Construction Procedure for State Feedback Gains 659

Author Index 674