The volume is dedicated to Lev Sakhnovich, who made fundamental contributions in operator theory and related topics. Besides bibliographic material, it includes a number of selected papers related to Lev Sakhnovich's research interests. The papers are related to operator identities, moment problems, random matrices and linear stochastic systems.

Presents unique material on Lev Sakhnovich Includes state of the art papers on operator theory and stochastic processes?

Inhalt
Editorial Introduction.- Part 1: Biographical Material and List of Publications of L.A. Sakhnovich.- L.A. Sakhnovich Biography.- List of Publications of L.A. Sakhnovich.- L.A. Sakhnovich My Teachers and Studies.- Part 2: Reserach Papers.- D. Alpay, F. Colombo and I. Sabadini: Inner Product Spaces and Krein Spaces in the Quaternionic Setting.- D. Alpay, P. Jorgensen, I. Lewkowicz and I. Martziano: Infinite Product Representations for Kernels and Iterations of Functions.- Y. Arlinski and S. Hassi: Q-functions and Boundary Triplets of Nonnegative Operators.- S. Boiko, V. Dubovoy and A. Kheifets: On Some Special Cases of the RadonNikodym Theorem for Vector- and Operator-valued Measures.- A.E. Frazho, S. ter Horst and M.A. Kaashoek: State Space Formulas for a Suboptimal Rational Leech Problem II: Parametrization of All Solutions.- B. Fritzsche, B. Kirstein and C. Mädler: On a Simultaneous Approach to the Even and Odd Truncated Matricial Hamburger Moment Problems.- F. Gesztesy and R. Nichols: A JostPais-type Reduction of (Modified) Fredholm Determinants for Semi-separable Operators in Infinite Dimensions.- K.A. Makarov and E. Tsekanovskii: On the Addition and Multiplication Theorems.- J. Rovnyak and L.A. Sakhnovich: On Indefinite Cases of Operator Identities Which Arise in Interpolation Theory. II.- A. Sakhnovich and L. Sakhnovich: Nonlinear FokkerPlanck Equation: Stability, Distance and the Corresponding Extremal Problem in the Spatially Inhomogeneous Case.