One consequence of the celebrated theorem of Beurling is that
all non-zero submodules of H^2(D) are unitarily equivalent to
H^2(D). For submodules of H^2(D^n) over
A(D^n), n>1, some are unitarily equivalent to
H^2(D^n) and some are not. For the Hardy module
H^2(partial(B)^n) over the ball algebra A(B^n), the
existence of inner functions on B^n established the existence
of proper submodules of H^2(partial(B)^n) that are unitarily
equivalent to H^2(B^n). For the Bergman modules over the
polydisk or the ball, one can show that no proper submodule is unitarily
equivalent to the Bergman module itself. In this talk we consider the
question of which Hilbert modules have proper submodules unitarily
equivalent to the original.