Almost invariant subspaces of the shift operator on vector-valued Hardy spaces (Q830670)

The authors characterize nearly invariant subspaces of finite defect for the backward shift operator acting on vector-valued Hardy spaces \(H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\), generalizing the scalar-valued result by \textit{I. Chalendar} et al. [J. Oper. Theory 83, No. 2, 321--331 (2020; Zbl 1463.47096)]. Given a bounded analytic function \(\Theta\) with values in the space of linear operators \(\mathcal L(\mathbb C^r,\mathbb C^m)\), we can induce the multiplier \(T_\theta F(z)=\Theta(z)F(z)\) from \(H^2_{\mathbb C^r}(\mathbb D)\) into \(H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\). They are determined by the condition \(ST_\Theta=T_\Theta S\) where \(S\) denotes the forward shift operator \(SF(z)=zF(z)\) which acts on the corresponding space in each case. We write, as usual, the backward shift \(S^* F(z)=\frac{F(z)-F(0)}{z}\). A closed subspace \(\mathcal M\subset H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\) is called almost-invariant for \(S\) if there exists a finite-dimensional subspace \(\mathcal F\subset H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\) such that \(S(\mathcal M)\subset \mathcal M\oplus\mathcal F\). Similarly, a closed subspace \(\mathcal M\subset H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\) is called nearly invariant for \(S^*\) if any \(F\in \mathcal M\) with \(F(0)=0\) satisfies that \(S^*F\in \mathcal M\) and it is called nearly \(S^*\)-invariant with defect \(p\) if there exists a \(p\)-dimensional subspace \(\mathcal F\subset H^2_{\mathbb C^m}(\mathbb D)\) such that, if \(F\in \mathcal M\) with \(F(0)=0\), then \(S^*F\in \mathcal M \oplus \mathcal F\). Also, \(\mathcal M\) is called \(S^*\)-almost invariant with defect \(p\) if \(S^*\mathcal M\subset\mathcal M \oplus \mathcal F\) and \(\dim \mathcal F=p\). In the paper under review, the authors present a characterization of nearly invariant subspaces for \(S^*\) with finite defect in the vector-valued Hardy spaces. Using such a result, they also manage to obtain the description of almost invariant subspaces for the shift and its adjoint acting on vector-valued Hardy spaces.