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Publications and source records attributed to Z. A. Lykova.
In this paper we characterize the unit disc, the bidisc and the symmetrized bidisc \[ G =\{(z+w,zw):|z|<1,\ |w|<1\} \] in terms of the possession of small classes of analytic maps into the unit disc that suffice to solve all Carathéodory extremal problems in the domain.
We give a solvability criterion for a special case of the $μ$-synthesis problem. That is, we prove the necessity and sufficiency of a condition for the existence of an analytic $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued function on the disc subject to a bound on the structured singular value and satisfying a finite set of interpolation conditions. To do this we prove a realization theorem for analytic functions from the disc to the tetrablock. We also obtain a solvability criterion for the problem of analytic interpolation from the disc to the tetrablock.
We analyse two special cases of $μ$-synthesis problems which can be reduced to interpolation problems in the set of analytic functions from the disc into the symmetrised bidisc and into the tetrablock. For these inhomogeneous domains we study the structure of interconnections between the set of analytic functions from the disc into the given domain, the matricial Schur class, the Schur class of the bidisc, and the set of pairs of positive kernels on the bidisc subject to a boundedness condition. We use the theories of Hilbert function spaces and of reproducing kernels to establish these connections. We give a solvability criterion for the interpolation problem that arises from the $μ$-synthesis problem related to the tetrablock.
We describe the basic complex geometry and function theory of the {\em pentablock} $\mathcal{P}$, which is the bounded domain in $\mathbb{C}^3$ given by \[ \mathcal{P}= \{(a_{21}, \mathrm{tr} A, \det A): A= \begin{bmatrix} a_{ij}\end{bmatrix}_{i,j=1}^2 \in \mathbb{B}\} \] where $\mathbb{B}$ denotes the open unit ball in the space of $2\times 2$ complex matrices. We prove several characterizations of the domain. We describe its distinguished boundary and exhibit a $4$-parameter group of automorphisms of $\mathcal{P}$. We show that $\mathcal{P}$ is intimately connected with the problem of $μ$-synthesis for a certain cost function $μ$ on the space of $2\times 2$ matrices defined in connection with robust stabilization by control engineers. We demonstrate connections between the function theories of $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathbb{B}$. We show that $\mathcal{P}$ is polynomially convex and starlike.
We analyse a special case of the robust stabilization problem under structured uncertainty. We obtain a new criterion for the solvability of the spectral Nevanlinna-Pick problem, which is a special case of the $μ$-synthesis problem of $H^\infty$ control in which $μ$ is the spectral radius. Given $n$ distinct points $\la_1,\dots,\la_n$ in the unit disc and $2\times 2$ nonscalar complex matrices $W_1,\dots,W_n$, the problem is to determine whether there is an analytic $2\times 2$ matrix function $F$ on the disc such that $F(\la_j)=W_j$ for each $j$ and the supremum of the spectral radius of $F(\la)$ is less than 1 for $\la$ in the disc. The condition is that the minimum of a quadratic function of pairs of positive $3n$-square matrices subject to certain linear matrix inequalities in the data be attained and be zero.