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Some Properties of Rational Functions with Prescribed Poles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
Let $P\left( z \right)$ be a polynomial of degree not exceeding
$n$ and let
$W\left( z \right)\,=\,\prod\nolimits_{j=1}^{n}{\left( z\,-\,{{a}_{j}} \right)}$ where
$\left| {{a}_{j}} \right|\,>\,1$,
$j\,=\,1,\,2,\,.\,.\,.\,,\,n$. If the rational function
$r\left( z \right)\,=\,{P\left( z \right)}/{W\left( z \right)}\;$ does not vanish in
$\left| z \right|\,<\,k$, then for
$k\,=\,1$ it is known that

where $B\left( Z \right)\,=\,{{{W}^{*}}\left( z \right)}/{W\left( z \right)}\;$ and
${{W}^{*}}\left( z \right)\,=\,{{z}^{n}}\overline{W\left( {1}/{\overline{z}}\; \right)}$. In the paper we consider the case when
$k\,>\,1$ and obtain a sharp result. We also show that

where ${{r}^{*}}\left( z \right)\,=\,B\left( z \right)\overline{r\left( {1}/{\overline{z}}\; \right)}$, and as a consquence of this result, we present a generalization of a theorem of O’Hara and Rodriguez for self-inversive polynomials. Finally, we establish a similar result when supremum is replaced by infimum for a rational function which has all its zeros in the unit circle.
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