Speaker

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Dr. Gautam Bharali

Subject Area

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Mathematics

Venue

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Lecture Hall - I, Dept of Mathematics

Time

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4.00 pm

Date  

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November 16,2007 (Friday)

Title

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Spectral Pick interpolation from a complex-geometric viewpoint

The spectral Pick-interpolation problem, i.e. to determine when there exists a holomorphic map from the unit disc to the class of complex matrices of spectral radius less than one that interpolates prescribed data, has a complicated solution using operator-theory and control-theory methods. The difficulty in implementing this solution motivated a new approach pioneered by Agler and Young. Their methods led to a checkable necessary condition for Pick interpolation. But, from a complex-geometric viewpoint, it was unclear why the latter condition should be sufficient. In this talk, we will demonstrate that this condition is not sufficient. We will also present an inequality -- largely linear-algebraic in flavour -- that provides a necessary condition for matricial data for which the Agler-Young-type test provides no conclusions.