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Blaschke product (Definition)
Definition 1   Suppose that $\{ a_n \}$ is a sequence of complex numbers with $0 < \lvert a_n \rvert < 1$ and $\sum_{n=1}^\infty (1 - \lvert a_n \rvert) < \infty$ , then \begin{equation*} B(z) := \prod_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\lvert a_n \rvert}{a_n} \left( \frac{a_n - z}{1-\bar{a}_nz} \right) \end{equation*}is called the Blaschke product.

This product converges uniformly on compact subsets of the unit disc, and thus $B$ is a holomorhic function on the unit disc. Further it is the function on the disc that has zeros exactly at $\{ a_n \}$ . And finally for $z$ in the unit disc, $\left\lvert B(z) \right\rvert \leq 1$ .

Definition 2   Sometimes $B_a(z) := \frac{z-a}{1-\bar{a}z}$ is called the Blaschke factor.

With this definition, the Blascke product becomes $B(z) = \prod_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\lvert a_n \rvert}{a_n} B_{a_n}(z)$ .

Bibliography

1
John B. Conway. Functions of One Complex Variable I. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, 1978.
2
Steven G. Krantz. Function Theory of Several Complex Variables, AMS Chelsea Publishing, Providence, Rhode Island, 1992.




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AMS MSC30C45 (Functions of a complex variable :: Geometric function theory :: Special classes of univalent and multivalent functions )

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