Orthogonal rational functions on the extended real line and analytic on the upper half plane

Abstract

Let $\{\alpha _k\}_{k=1}^\infty$ be an arbitrary sequence of complex numbers in the upper half plane. We generalize the orthogonal rational functions $\phi _n$ based upon those points and obtain the Nevanlinna measure, together with the Riesz and Poisson kernels, for Caratheodory functions $F(z)$ on the upper half plane. Then, we study the relation between ORFs and their functions of the second kind as well as their interpolation properties. Further, by using a linear transformation, we generate a new class of rational functions and state the necessary conditions for guaranteeing their orthogonality.