“…The (simpler) problem of finding locally optimal H2 reduced models has been studied extensively. Optimality conditions have been formulated either in terms of Lyapunov and Sylvester equations [89,64,61,96,91,81,27] or in terms of rational (tangential) interpolation conditions [73,54,55,57,84,35,67,21,22,18,66,76]. [57] showed the equivalence between the Lyapunov/Sylvester equation conditions and the interpolation framework that we describe here.…”