We consider a family of generalized Procrustes problems. In this class of problems, one aims at aligning a set of vectors to a given second set of vectors. The distance between both sets is measured in the q norm, and for the alignment, isometries with respect to the p norm are allowed. In contrast to the classical Procrustes problem with p = q = 2, we allow p and q to differ. We will see that it makes a difference whether the problem is real or cast over the complex field. Therefore, we discuss the solutions for p = 2 separately for these cases. We show that all the real cases can be solved efficiently. Most of the complex cases can up to now only be solved approximately in polynomial time, but we show the existence of polynomial time algorithms for q ∈ {2, 4, ∞}. Computational experiments illustrate the suggested algorithms.

We consider a family of generalized Procrustes problems. In this class of problems, one aims at aligning a set of vectors to a given second set of vectors. The distance between both sets is measured in the q norm, and for the alignment, isometries with respect to the p norm are allowed. In contrast to the classical Procrustes problem with p = q = 2, we allow p and q to differ. We will see that it makes a difference whether the problem is real or cast over the complex field. Therefore, we discuss the solutions for p = 2 separately for these cases. We show that all the real cases can be solved efficiently. Most of the complex cases can up to now only be solved approximately in polynomial time, but we show the existence of polynomial time algorithms for q ∈ {2, 4, ∞}. Computational experiments illustrate the suggested algorithms.

We consider a family of generalized Procrustes problems. In this class of problems, one aims at aligning a set of vectors to a given second set of vectors. The distance between both sets is measured in the q norm, and for the alignment, isometries with respect to the p norm are allowed. In contrast to the classical Procrustes problem with p = q = 2, we allow p and q to differ. We will see that it makes a difference whether the problem is real or cast over the complex field. Therefore, we discuss the solutions for p = 2 separately for these cases. We show that all the real cases can be solved efficiently. Most of the complex cases can up to now only be solved approximately in polynomial time, but we show the existence of polynomial time algorithms for q ∈ {2, 4, ∞}. Computational experiments illustrate the suggested algorithms.

We consider a family of generalized Procrustes problems. In this class of problems, one aims at aligning a set of vectors to a given second set of vectors. The distance between both sets is measured in the q norm, and for the alignment, isometries with respect to the p norm are allowed. In contrast to the classical Procrustes problem with p = q = 2, we allow p and q to differ. We will see that it makes a difference whether the problem is real or cast over the complex field. Therefore, we discuss the solutions for p = 2 separately for these cases. We show that all the real cases can be solved efficiently. Most of the complex cases can up to now only be solved approximately in polynomial time, but we show the existence of polynomial time algorithms for q ∈ {2, 4, ∞}. Computational experiments illustrate the suggested algorithms.:1. Introduction 2. The (lp, lq)-Procrustes problem 3. Optimization methods for the remaining cases with p not equal to 2 4. The one-dimensional complex optimization problems with p, q unequal to 2 5. Conclusions

Die Arbeit untersucht einen überraschenden Zusammenhang zwischen Halbflüssen von holomorphen Selbstabbildungen auf einfach zusammenhängenden Gebieten und Halbgruppen, die von Poincaré-Steklov Operatoren erzeugt werden. Mithilfe von Erzeuger von Kompositionshalbgruppen auf Banachräumen von analytischen Funktionen werden insbesondere Dirichlet-zu-Neumann und Dirichlet-zu-Robin Operatoren konstruiert. Dieser Zugang eröffnet einen neuen Ansatz für das Studium partiellen Differentialgleichungen, die mit solchen Operatoren assoziiert sind. / We study a surprising connection between semiflows of holomorphic selfmaps of a simply connected domain and semigroups generated by Poincaré-Steklov operators. In particular, by means of generators of semigroups of composition operators on Banach spaces of analytic functions, we construct Dirichlet-to-Neumann and Dirichlet-to-Robin operators. This approach gives new insights to the theory of partial differential equations associated with such operators.