Introduction to Model Spaces and their Operators

A self-contained textbook which opens up this challenging field to newcomers and points to areas of future research.

The study of model spaces is a broad field with connections to complex analysis, operator theory, engineering and mathematical physics. This self-contained text is the ideal introduction for newcomers, quickly taking them through the history of the subject and then pointing towards areas of future research.The study of model spaces, the closed invariant subspaces of the backward shift operator, is a vast area of research with connections to complex analysis, operator theory and functional analysis. This self-contained text is the ideal introduction for newcomers to the field. It sets out the basic ideas and quickly takes the reader through the history of the subject before ending up at the frontier of mathematical analysis. Open questions point to potential areas of future research, offering plenty of inspiration to graduate students wishing to advance further.