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The Extension Problem for Positive Definite Functions. A Short Historical Survey

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Operator Theory and Indefinite Inner Product Spaces

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The aim of the present paper is to give a short historical survey on the extension problem for positive definite functions.

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Sasvári, Z. (2005). The Extension Problem for Positive Definite Functions. A Short Historical Survey. In: Langer, M., Luger, A., Woracek, H. (eds) Operator Theory and Indefinite Inner Product Spaces. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 163. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7516-7_16

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