Realizations of holomorphic and slice hyperholomorphic functions: The Krein space case

In this paper we treat realization results for operator-valued functions which are analytic in the complex sense or slice hyperholomorphic over the quaternions. In the complex setting, we prove a realization theorem for an operator-valued function analytic in a neighborhood of the origin with a coisometric state space operator thus generalizing an analogous result in the unitary case. A main difference with previous works is the use of reproducing kernel Krein spaces. We then prove the counterpart of this result in the quaternionic setting. The present work is the first paper which presents a realization theorem with a state space which is a quaternionic Krein space and may open new avenues of research in hypercomplex analysis. (C) 2020 Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.