Interacting particle systems (IPSs) are a very important class of dynamical systems, arising in different domains like biology, physics, sociology and engineering. In many applications, these systems can be very large, making their simulation and control, as well as related numerical tasks, very challenging. Kernel methods, a powerful tool in machine learning, offer promising approaches for analyzing and managing IPS. This paper provides a comprehensive study of applying kernel methods to IPS, including the development of numerical schemes and the exploration of mean-field limits. We present novel applications and numerical experiments demonstrating the effectiveness of kernel methods for surrogate modelling and state-dependent feature learning in IPS. Our findings highlight the potential of these methods for advancing the study and control of large-scale IPS.

We discuss the class of functions, which are well approximated on compacta by the geometric mean of the eigenvalues of a unital (completely) positive map into a matrix algebra or more generally a type $II_1$ factor, using the notion of a Fuglede–Kadison determinant. In two variables, the two classes are the same, but in three or more noncommuting variables, there are generally functions arising from type $II_1$ von Neumann algebras, due to the recently established failure of the Connes embedding conjecture. The question of whether or not approximability holds for scalar inputs is shown to be equivalent to a restricted form of the Connes embedding conjecture, the so-called shuffle-word-embedding conjecture.

On all Bergman–Besov Hilbert spaces on the unit disk, we find self-adjoint weighted shift operators that are differential operators of half-order whose commutators are the identity, thereby obtaining uncertainty relations in these spaces. We also obtain joint average uncertainty relations for pairs of commuting tuples of operators on the same spaces defined on the unit ball. We further identify functions that yield equality in some uncertainty inequalities.

A subset ${\mathcal D}$ of a domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb C}^d$ is determining for an analytic function $f:\Omega \to \overline {{\mathbb D}}$ if whenever an analytic function $g:\Omega \rightarrow \overline {{\mathbb D}}$ coincides with f on ${\mathcal D}$, equals to f on whole $\Omega $. This note finds several sufficient conditions for a subset of the symmetrized bidisk to be determining. For any $N\geq 1$, a set consisting of $N^2-N+1$ many points is constructed which is determining for any rational inner function with a degree constraint. We also investigate when the intersection of the symmetrized bidisk intersected with some special algebraic varieties can be determining for rational inner functions.

We characterize zero sets for which every subset remains a zero set too in the Fock space $\mathcal {F}^p$ , $1\leq p<\infty $ . We are also interested in the study of a stability problem for some examples of uniqueness set with zero excess in Fock spaces.

Hardy kernels are a useful tool to define integral operators on Hilbertian spaces like $L^2(\mathbb R^+)$ or $H^2(\mathbb C^+)$ . These kernels entail an algebraic $L^1$ -structure which is used in this work to study the range spaces of those operators as reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We obtain their reproducing kernels, which in the $L^2(\mathbb R^+)$ case turn out to be Hardy kernels as well. In the $H^2(\mathbb C^+)$ scenario, the reproducing kernels are given by holomorphic extensions of Hardy kernels. Other results presented here are theorems of Paley–Wiener type, and a connection with one-sided Hilbert transforms.

Given a holomorphic self-map $\varphi $ of $\mathbb {D}$ (the open unit disc in $\mathbb {C}$ ), the composition operator $C_{\varphi } f = f \circ \varphi $ , $f \in H^2(\mathbb {\mathbb {D}})$ , defines a bounded linear operator on the Hardy space $H^2(\mathbb {\mathbb {D}})$ . The model spaces are the backward shift-invariant closed subspaces of $H^2(\mathbb {\mathbb {D}})$ , which are canonically associated with inner functions. In this paper, we study model spaces that are invariant under composition operators. Emphasis is put on finite-dimensional model spaces, affine transformations, and linear fractional transformations.

We discuss the notion of optimal polynomial approximants in multivariable reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In particular, we analyze difficulties that arise in the multivariable case which are not present in one variable, for example, a more complicated relationship between optimal approximants and orthogonal polynomials in weighted spaces. Weakly inner functions, whose optimal approximants are all constant, provide extreme cases where nontrivial orthogonal polynomials cannot be recovered from the optimal approximants. Concrete examples are presented to illustrate the general theory and are used to disprove certain natural conjectures regarding zeros of optimal approximants in several variables.

We discuss the concept of inner function in reproducing kernelHilbert spaces with an orthogonal basis of monomials and examine connections between inner functions and optimal polynomial approximants to ${1}/{f}\;$, where $f$ is a function in the space. We revisit some classical examples from this perspective, and show how a construction of Shapiro and Shields can be modiûed to produce inner functions.

In this paper we discuss the range of a co-analytic Toeplitz operator. These range spaces are closely related to de Branges–Rovnyak spaces (in some cases they are equal as sets). In order to understand its structure, we explore when the range space decomposes into the range of an associated analytic Toeplitz operator and an identifiable orthogonal complement. For certain cases, we compute this orthogonal complement in terms of the kernel of a certain Toeplitz operator on the Hardy space, where we focus on when this kernel is a model space (backward shift invariant subspace). In the spirit of Ahern–Clark, we also discuss the non-tangential boundary behavior in these range spaces. These results give us further insight into the description of the range of a co-analytic Toeplitz operator as well as its orthogonal decomposition. Our Ahern–Clark type results, which are stated in a general abstract setting, will also have applications to related sub-Hardy Hilbert spaces of analytic functions such as the de Branges–Rovnyak spaces and the harmonically weighted Dirichlet spaces.

Classically, Nevanlinna showed that functions from the complex upper half plane into itself which satisfy nice asymptotic conditions are parametrized by finite measures on the real line. Furthermore, the higher order asymptotic behaviour at infinity of a map from the complex upper half plane into itself is governed by the existence of moments of its representing measure, which was the key to his solution of the Hamburger moment problem. Agler and McCarthy showed that an analogue of the above correspondence holds between a Pick function f of two variables, an analytic function which maps the product of two upper half planes into the upper half plane, and moment-like quantities arising from an operator theoretic representation for f. We apply their ‘moment’ theory to show that there is a fine hierarchy of levels of regularity at infinity for Pick functions in two variables, given by the Löwner classes and intermediate Löwner classes of order N, which can be exhibited in terms of certain formulae akin to the Julia quotient.

An asymptotically orthonormal sequence is a sequence that is nearly orthonormal in the sense that it satisfies the Parseval equality up to two constants close to one. In this paper, we explore such sequences formed by normalized reproducing kernels for model spaces and de Branges–Rovnyak spaces.

We introduce and study Hankel operators defined on the Hardy space of regular functions of a quaternionic variable. Theorems analogous to those of Nehari and Fefferman are proved.

We continue the investigation of the isomorphism problem for multiplier algebras of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with the complete Nevanlinna-Pick property. In contrast to previous work in this area, we do not study these spaces by identifying them with the restrictions of a universal space, namely the Drury-Arveson space. Instead, we work directly with the Hilbert spaces and their reproducing kernels. In particular, we show that two multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces on the same set are equal if and only if the Hilbert spaces are equal. Most of the article is devoted to the study of a special class of complete Nevanlinna-Pick spaces on homogeneous varieties. We provide a complete answer to the question of when two multiplier algebras of spaces of this type are algebraically or isometrically isomorphic.This generalizes results of Davidson, Ramsey,Shalit, and the author.

We examine spectral behavior of irreducible tuples that do not admit the boundary property. In particular, we prove under some mild assumption that the spectral radius of such an $m$-tuple $\left( {{T}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,\,{{T}_{m}} \right)$must be the operator norm of $T_{1}^{*}\,{{T}_{1}}\,+\,.\,.\,.\,+\,T_{m}^{*}{{T}_{m}}$. We use this simple observation to ensure the boundary property for an irreducible, essentially normal, joint q-isometry, provided it is not a joint isometry. We further exhibit a family of reproducing Hilbert $\mathbb{C}\left[ {{z}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,{{z}_{m}} \right]$-modules (of which the Drury–Arveson Hilbert module is a prototype) with the property that any two nested unitarily equivalent submodules are indeed equal.

Let $\left( X,\,B,\,\mu \right)$ be a $\sigma $-finite measure space and let $H\,\subset \,{{L}^{2}}\left( X,\,\mu \right)$ be a separable reproducing kernel Hilbert space on $X$. We show that the multiplier algebra of $H$ has property $\left( {{A}_{1}}\left( 1 \right) \right)$.

The Bernstein approximation problem is to determine whether or not the space of all polynomials is dense in a given weighted ${C}_{0} $-space on the real line. A theorem of de Branges characterizes non-density by existence of an entire function of Krein class being related with the weight in a certain way. An analogous result holds true for weighted sup-norm approximation by entire functions of exponential type at most $\tau $ and bounded on the real axis ($\tau \gt 0$ fixed).

We consider approximation in weighted ${C}_{0} $-spaces by functions belonging to a prescribed subspace of entire functions which is solely assumed to be invariant under division of zeros and passing from $F(z)$ to $ \overline{F( \overline{z} )} $, and establish the precise analogue of de Branges’ theorem. For the proof we follow the lines of de Branges’ original proof, and employ some results of Pitt.

For a given de Branges space $\mathcal{H}(E)$ we investigate de Branges subspaces defined in terms of majorants on the real axis. If $\omega $ is a nonnegative function on $\mathbb{R}$, we consider the subspace

$${{\mathcal{R}}_{\omega }}(E)=\text{Clo}{{\text{s}}_{\mathcal{H}(E)}}\{F\in \mathcal{H}(E):\text{there exists }C>0:|{{E}^{-1}}F|\le C\omega \,on\,\mathbb{R}\}.$$

We show that ${{\mathcal{R}}_{\omega }}(E)$ is a de Branges subspace and describe all subspaces of this form. Moreover, we give a criterion for the existence of positive minimal majorants.

The aim of this paper is to study small Hankel operators $h$ on the Hardy space or on weighted Bergman spaces,where $\Omega $ is a finite type domain in ${{\mathbb{C}}^{2}}$ or a strictly pseudoconvex domain in ${{\mathbb{C}}^{n}}$. We give a sufficient condition on the symbol $f$ so that $h$ belongs to the Schatten class ${{S}_{p}}$, $1\,\le \,p\,<\,+\infty $.