A natural transfer function space for linear discrete time-invariant and scale-invariant systems

Abstract

In a previous work, we have defined the scale shift for a discrete-time signal and introduced a family of linear scale-invariant systems in connection with characterautomorphic Hardy spaces. In this paper, we prove a Beurling-Lax theorem for such Hardy spaces of order 2. We also study an interpolation problem in these spaces, as a first step towards a finite dimensional implementation of a scale invariant system. Our approach uses a characterization of character-automorphic Hardy spaces of order 2 in terms of classical de Branges Rovnyak spaces.