Beurling–Lax theorem
In mathematics, the Beurling–Lax theorem is a theorem due to Beurling (1948) and Lax (1959) which characterizes the shift-invariant subspaces of the Hardy space H 2 ( D , C ) {\displaystyle H^{2}(\mathbb {D} ,\mathbb {C} )} . It states that each such space is of the form θ H 2 ( D , C ) , {\displaystyle \theta H^{2}(\mathbb {D} ,\mathbb {C} ),} for some inner function θ {\displaystyle \theta } .