Contributions to Operator Theory in Spaces with an Indefinite Metric, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998 The Heinz Langer Anniversary Volume Operator Theory: Advances and Applications Series, Vol. 106

Heinz Langer and his work.- On the spectra of some class of quadratic operator pencils.- Special realizations for Schur upper triangular operators.- On the defect of noncontractive operators in Kre?nin spaces: a new formula and some applications.- Positive differential operators in the Krein space L2(M?n).- Singular values of positive pencils and applications.- Perturbations of Krein spaces preserving the nonsingularity of the critical point infinity.- An analysis of the block structure of jqq-inner functions.- Selfadjoint extensions of the orthogonal sum of symmetric relations, II.- Some interpolation problems of Nevanlinna-Pick type. The Krein-Langer method.- On the spectral representation for singular selfadjoint boundary eigenvalue problems.- Some characteristics of a linear manifold in a Kre?nn space and their applications.- Riggings and relatively form bounded perturbations of nonnegative operators in Krem spaces.- Norm bounds for Volterra integral operators and time-varying linear systems with finite horizon.- The numerical range of selfadjoint matrix polynomials.- Spectral properties of a matrix polynomial connected with a component of its numerical range.- Lyapunov stability of a multiplication operator perturbed by a Volterra operator.- Multiplicative perturbations of positive operators in Krein spaces.- On the number of negative squares of certain functions.- Factorization of elliptic pencils and the Mandelstam hypothesis.- An inductive limit procedure within the quantum harmonic oscillator.- Canonical systems with a semibounded spectrum.