Cascade decompositions of rational matrix functions and their stability

Abstract
The paper provides a geometrical characterization for the minimal general cascade decomposition of a d-regular rational matrix function defined on a sum of finite-dimensional spaces. It also contains a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of such a decomposition, These results, when applied to the case of the linear fractional decompositions of a matrix-valued function lead to a new treatment of the corresponding problems discussed by Helton and Ball (1982) and Gohberg and Rubinstein (1986).

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