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This book presents a panorama of operator theory. It treats a variety of classes of linear operators which illustrate the richness of the theory, both in its theoretical developments and its applications. For each of the classes various differential and integral operators motivate or illustrate the main results. The topics have been updated and enhanced by new developments, many of which appear here for the first time. Interconnections appear frequently and unexpectedly. This second volume consists of five parts: triangular representations, classes of Toeplitz operators, contractive operators and characteristic operator functions, Banach algebras and algebras of operators, and extension and completion problems. The exposition is self-contained and has been simplified and polished in an effort to make advanced topics accessible to a wide audience of students and researchers in mathematics, science and engineering. Contents: Vol. I - This book presents a panorama of operator theory. It treats a variety of classes of linear operators which illustrate the richness of the theory, both in its theoretical developments and its applications. For each of the classes various differential and integral operators motivate or illustrate the main results. The topics have been updated and enhanced by new developments, many of which appear here for the first time. Interconnections appear frequently and unexpectedly. The present volume consists of four parts: general spectral theory, classes of compact operators, Fredholm and Wiener-Hopf operators, and classes of unbounded operators: The exposition is self-contained and has been simplified and polished in an effort to make advanced topics accessible to a wide audience of students and researchers in mathematics, science and engineering. "... Used as a graduate textbook, the book allows the instructor several good selections of topics to build a course. ... The authors took great care to polish and simplify the exposition; as a result, the book can serve also as an excellentbasis for reading courses or for self-study. ... Besides being a textbook, the book is a valuable reference source for a wide audience of mathematicians, physicists and engineers. The specialists in functional analysis and operator theory will find most of the topics familiar, although the exposition is often novel or non-traditional, making the material more accessible. ..." (Zentralblatt für Mathematik) / "This book presents an excellently chosen panorama of operator theory. It shows for several times the fruitful application of complex analysis to problems in operator theory. ... Each part contains interesting exercises and comments on the literature of the topic."(Monatshefte für Mathematik) ... Read more

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This is a book on holomorphic operator functions of a single variable and applications, which is focused on the relations between local and global theories. It is based on methods and technics of complex analysis of several variables.

The first part of the theory starts with a straightforward generalization of some results from the basics of analysis of scalar functions of one complex variable. In the second part, which is the main part of the theory, results are obtained by methods and tools adapted from complex analysis of functions of several variables. We have in mind the theory of holomorphic cocycles (fiber bundles) with values in infinite-dimensional non-commutative groups. As a rule, these results do not appear in traditional complex analysis of one variable, not even for matrix valued cocycles. The third part consists of applications to operator theory. Here applications are presented for holomorphic families of subspaces and Plemelj-Muschelishvili factorization. The fourth part presents a generalization of the theory of cocycles to cocycles with restrictions. This part contains also applications to interpolation problems, to the problem of holomorphic equivalence and diagonalization.

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This is the first of two volumes containing peer-reviewed research and survey papers based on invited talks at the International Conference on Modern Analysis and Applications. The conference, which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mark Krein, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, was held in Odessa, Ukraine, on April 9-14, 2007. The papers describe the contemporary development of subjects influenced by Krein, such as the theory of operators in Hilbert and Krein spaces, differential operators, applications of functional analysis in function theory, theory of networks and systems, mathematical physics and mechanics.

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Contains 25 papers, most of which were presented, for the first time, at the International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, held in the Netherlands, June 30-July 3, 1998. ... Read more

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The Workshop on Operator Theory and Boundary Eigenvalue Problems was held at the Technical University, Vienna, Austria, July 27 to 30, 1993. It was the seventh workshop in the series of IWOTA (International Workshops on Operator Theory and Applications). The main topics at the workshop were interpolation problems and analytic matrix functions, operator theory in spaces with indefinite scalar products, boundary value problems for differential and functional-differential equations and systems theory and control. The workshop covered different aspects, starting with abstract operator theory up to contrete applications. The papers in these proceedings provide an accurate cross section of the lectures presented at the workshop. This book will be of interest to a wide group of pure and applied mathematicians. ... Read more