
This book is about the theory of system representations. The systems that are considered are linear, time-invariant, deterministic and finite- dimensional. The observation that some representations are more suitable for handling a particular problem than others motivates the...

1 Introduction.- 2 Rational matrices and vector spaces.- 3 Representations of linear time-invariant systems.- 4 Minimality and transformation groups.- 5 Realization in minimal first-order form.- 6 Structural invariants.- 7 Conclusions.