Non-selfadjoint operator algebras have been studied since the paper of Kadison and Singer in 1960. In [1], Arveson introduced the notion of subdiagonal algebras as the generalization of weak *-Dirichlet algebras and studied the analyticity of operator algebras. After that, we have many papers about non-selfadjoint algebras in this direction: nest algebras, CSL algebras, reflexive algebras, analytic operator algebras, analytic crossed products and so on. Since the notion of subdiagonal algebras is the analogue of weak *-Dirichlet algebras, subdiagonal algebras have many fruitful properties from the theory of function algebras. Thus, we have several attempts in this direction: Beurling–Lax–Halmos theorem for invariant subspaces, maximality, factorization theorem and so on.
Factorization in analytic operator algebras