Minimal Lower Separable Representations: Characterization and Construction

  • M. A. Kaashoek
  • H. J. Woerdeman
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Part of the Operator Theory: Advances and Applications book series (OT, volume 41)

Abstract

Minimality of a lower separable representation is characterized and a procedure to reduce a lower separable representation to a minimal one is described. The results yield an algorithm to construct a minimal realization for a given impulse response matrix.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • M. A. Kaashoek
    • 1
  • H. J. Woerdeman
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Mathematics and Compter ScienceVrije UniversiteitAmsterdamThe Netherlands

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