Download or read book The Backward Shift on the Hardy Space written by Joseph A. Cima and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shift operators on Hilbert spaces of analytic functions play an important role in the study of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces since they often serve as models for various classes of linear operators. For example, "parts" of direct sums of the backward shift operator on the classical Hardy space H2 model certain types of contraction operators and potentially have connections to understanding the invariant subspaces of a general linear operator. This book is a thorough treatment of the characterization of the backward shift invariant subspaces of the well-known Hardy spaces H{p}. The characterization of the backward shift invariant subspaces of H{p} for 1