This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 contains the preliminaries. We give the background, notation and some results needed for this work, and we describe our main results of this thesis. In Chapter 2 we will introduce a class of weighted Bergman spaces. We then will discuss some properties about the multiplication operator, Mz , on them. We also characterize the dual spaces of these weighted Bergman spaces. In Chapter 3 we will characterize the reducing subspaces of multiple weighted shifts. The reducing subspaces of the Bergman and the Dirichlet shift of multiplicity N are portrayed from this characterization. In Chapter 4 we will introduce the class of super-isometrically dilatable operators and describe their elementary properties. We then will discuss an equivalent description of the invariant subspace lattice for the Bergman shift. We will also discuss the interpolating sequences on the bidisk. Finally, we will examine a special class of super-isometrically dilatable operators. One corollary of this work is that we will prove that the compression of the Bergman shift on two compliments of two invariant subspaces are unitarily equivalent if and only if the two invariant subspaces are equal. / Ph. D.

This thesis presents some methods of multivariate dimension reduction, with emphasis on methods guided by the work of R.A. Fisher. Some of the methods presented can be traced back to the 20th century, while some are much more recent. For the more recent methods, additional attention will paid to the foundational underpinnings. The presentation for each of the methods contains a brief introduction of its general philosophy, accompanied by some theorems and ends with the connection to the work of Fisher. / Den här kandidatuppsatsen presenterar ett antal metoder för dimensionsreducering, där betoning läggs på metoder some följer teori utvecklad av R.A. Fisher. En del av metoderna som presenteras utvecklades redan på tidigt 1900-tal, medan andra är utvecklade i närtid. För metoderna utvecklade i närtid, så kommer större vikt läggas vid den grundläggande teorin för metoden. Presentationen av varje metod består av en kortare beskrivning, följt av satser och slutligen beskrivs dess koppling to Fishers teorier.