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The article represents a review and also some development of the ideas of linear systems theory, Lax-Phillips scattering theory and the Sz.-Nagy-Foias model theory based on the Sz.-Nagy deletion theorem for a contraction operator. All these theories are united by a contraction, analytic, operator-valued function on the unit disk \(W(z)\) having a representation of the form \(W(z)= \Delta+ zC(I- zA)^{-1}B\). The following extensions are discussed in the article: 1) replacement of the unit disk by the unit ball in \(C^d\), 2) the unit polydisk in \(C^d\), 3) a component of the nonreal points on an algebraic curve embedded in \(C^2\) with antihomomorphic involution \((\lambda_1, \lambda_2)\to (\overline\lambda^{-1}_1, \overline\lambda^{- 1}_2)\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0943.00054].