Matrix and Operator Valued Functions

Odessa reminiscences, I. Gohberg; the last days of Vladimir Petrovich Potapov, L.B. Golinskii; the influence of V.P. Potapov and M.G. Krein on my scientific work - my first dissertation, a tilt toward operator theory, the results of Potapov's group in network theory, Darlington method in the general theory of passive systems, regular j-inner matrix functions and related generalized bitangential problems, references, D.Z. Arov; the development of some of V.P. Potapov's ideas - the geometric theory of operators in spaces with indefinite metric, T.Ja. Azizov, E.I. Iohvidov; on the Potapov theory of multiplicative representations, Yu.P. Ginzburg, L.V. Shevchuk; an operator approach to the Potapov scheme for the solution of interpolation problems - Potapov's method of solution of interpolation problems, some information from J-algebra, Nevanlinna-Pick problem, the Schur problem, operator identities and interpolation problems, formulation of the problem, the fundamental matrix inequality, the transformed inequality, the solution of nondegenerate interpolation problems, Weyl discs, degenerate interpolation problems and the method of regularization, applications of the general theory, References, T.S. Ivanchenko, L.A. Sakhnovich; description of a class of functions which admit an approximation by rational functions with pre-assigned poles I - introduction, the class PCNM of pseudocontinuable functions, the Smirnov class N, the weighted space PCHP (I+, I-) of pseudocontinuable meromorphic functions with prescribed denominators, G.Ts. Tumarkin's theorem on functions which admit weighted approximation by a sequence of rational functions with preassigned poles, formulation of the main approximation theorem, a fundamental approximation Lemma, References, V.E. Katsnelson; an analysis and extension of V.P. Potapov's approach to problems with applications to the generalized bi-tangential Schur-Nevanlinna-Pick problem and J-inner-outer factorisation - Potapov's approach to the Nevanlinna-Pick problem, an analysis of Potapov's approach and the AIP; the abstract interpolation problem; the AIP and unitary extensions of an isometry, the generalized bi-tangential Schur-Nevanlinna-Pick (SNP) problem, inner-outer factorisation of -J-contractive matrix-functions, References, A.Ya. Kheifits, P.M. Yuditskii; on the theory of inverse problems for the canonical different equation, M.G. Krein, I.E. Ovcharenko; some properties of linear-fractional transformations and the harmonic mean of matrix functions, A.A. Nudel'man; modification of V.P. PotaPov's scheme in the indefinite case. (Part contents)