Inner functions on the bidisk and associated Hilbert spaces

Abstract

Matrix valued inner functions on the bidisk have a number of natural subspaces of the Hardy space on the torus associated to them. We study their relationship to Agler decompositions, regularity up to the boundary, and restriction maps into one variable spaces. We give a complete description of the important spaces associated to matrix rational inner functions. The dimension of some of these spaces can be computed in a straightforward way, and this ends up having an application to the study of three variable rational inner functions. Examples are included to highlight the differences between the scalar and matrix cases.