The main theme of this paper is to characterize distinguished subclasses of the matricial Schur class Sp×q(D) in terms of Taylor coefficients. Starting point of our investigations is the observation that the Taylor coefficient sequences of functions from Sp×q(D) are exactly the infinite p × q Schur sequences. We draw our attention mainly to the subclass Sp×q,∞(D) of Sp×q(D) which consists of all p×q Schur functions for which the corresponding Taylor coefficient sequences are nondegenerate p × q Schur sequences. Using an appropriate adaptation of the Schur-Potapov algorithm for functions belonging to Sp×q(D) to infinite sequences of complex p × q matrices we obtain an one-to-one correspondence between infinite nondegenerate p × q Schur sequences and the set of all infinite sequences (Ej) ∞ j=0 of strictly contractive complex p × q matrices. Taking into account the construction of Sp×q,∞(D) this gives us an one-to-one correspondence between Sp×q,∞(D) and the set of all infinite sequences (Ej) ∞ j=0 of strictly contractive complex p × q matrices. Hereby, (Ej) ∞ j=0 is called the sequence of Schur-Potapov parameters (shortly SP-parameters) of f .
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 30E05, 47A57.