q Let N0(s) and M0(s) be stable and minimum phase spectral factors:
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• Then P0= N0 / M0  is a normalized coprime factorization and (N0 Nz) and (M0 Np) form a pair of normalized coprime factorizations of P.
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•where r>0, -p/2<q< p/2, and