“…If U and Y are Pontryagin spaces with the same negative index, one encounters operator colligations, or systems, such that all the spaces are indefinite. Theory of canonical isometric, co-isometric and conservative systems in that case is considered, for instance, in [2,3,20,23], along with the other properties of the generalized Schur functions. Especially, symmetric generalized Schur functions, with a little bit more general definition than in this paper, were studied in [3].…”