Lax-Phillips scattering theory and well-posed linear systems: a coordinate-free approach

Abstract. We give a further elaboration of the fundamental connections between Lax-Phillips scattering, conservative input/state/output linear systems and Sz.-Nagy-Foias model theory for both the discrete- and continuous-time settings. In particular, for the continuous-time setting, we show how to locate a scattering-conservative L2-well-posed linear system (in the sense of Staffans and Weiss) embedded in a Lax-Phillips scattering system presented in axiomatic form; conversely, given a scattering-conservative linear system, we show how one can view the space of finite-energy input-state-output trajectories of the system as the ambient space for an associated Lax-Phillips scattering system. We use these connections to give a simple, conceptual proof of the identity of the scattering function of the scattering system with the transfer function of the input-state-output linear system. As an application we show how system-theoretic ideas can be used to arrive at the spectral analysis of th...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: MCSS
• Authors: Joseph A. Ball, Philip T. Carroll, Yoichi Uetake
• Keywords: Control Systems, Lax-Phillips Scattering, Linear System, MCSS 2008, Scattering Function