Operator-valued bergman inner functions as transfer functions

An explicit construction characterizing the operator-valued Bergman inner functions is given for a class of vector-valued standard weighted Bergman spaces in the unit disk. These operator-valued Bergman inner functions act as contractive multipliers from the Hardy space into the associated Bergman space, and they have a natural interpretation as transfer functions for a related class of discrete time linear systems. This points to a new interaction between the fields of invariant subspace theory and mathematical systems theory.