The requirement of causality in system theory is inevitably accompanied
by the appearance of certain mathematical operations, namely the Riesz
proj- tion, theHilberttransform,
andthespectralfactorizationmapping.Aclassical
exampleillustratingthisisthedeterminationoftheso-calledWiener?lter(the
linear, minimum means square error estimation ?lter for stationary
stochastic sequences [88]). If the ?lter is not required to be causal,
the transfer function of the Wiener ?lter is simply given by H(?)=?
(?)/? (?), where ? (?) xy xx xx and ? (?) are certain given functions.
However, if one requires that the - xy timation ?lter is causal, the
transfer function of the optimal ?lter is given by 1 ? (?) xy H(?)= P,
(, ?] . + [? ] (?) [? ] (?) xx + xx? Here [? ] and [? ]
represent the so called spectral factors of ?, and xx + xx? xx P is the
so called Riesz projection. Thus, compared to the non-causal ?lter, +
two additional operations are necessary for the determination of the
causal ?lter, namely the spectral factorization mapping ? ? ([? ], [?
] ), and xx xx + xx? the Riesz projection P