Singly generated invariant subspaces in the Hardy space on the unit ball

Abstract

In this paper, we give a complete characterization of singly generated invariant subspaces in the Hardy space on the unit ball. Then we construct a singly generated invariant subspace that cannot be generated by a single inner function, contrary to the one-variable case where every invariant subspace is generated by a single inner function. Some important properties of invariant subspaces are also determined for singly generated invariant subspaces.