Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We study the image of the model subspace ${{K}_{\theta }}$ under the composition operator
${{C}_{\varphi }}$, where
$\varphi $ and
$\theta $ are inner functions, and find the smallest model subspace which contains the linear manifold
${{C}_{\varphi }}{{K}_{\theta }}$. Then we characterize the case when
${{C}_{\varphi }}$ maps
${{K}_{\theta }}$ into itself. This case leads to the study of the inner functions
$\varphi $ and
$\psi $ such that the composition
$\psi \,\text{o}\,\varphi $ is a divisor of
$\psi $ in the family of inner functions.