The structure of inner multipliers on spaces with complete Nevanlinna Pick kernels (Q1865304)

The present paper deals with the structure of multiplier invariant subspaces on some Hilbert spaces of analytic functions in the unit ball of \(\mathbb C^n\). The results fall into the category of Beurling-Lax-Halmos type theorems. Complete Nevanlinna-Pick kernels play an essential role here. The authors apply their results to answer a question of \textit{W. Arveson} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 11096-11099 (1999; Zbl 0979.46032, Zbl 0968.46035)] by showing that a certain curvature invariant of a pure contractive Hilbert module of finite rank is an integer.