In complex analysis, the Blaschke product is a bounded analytic function in the open unit disc constructed to have zeros at a (finite or infinite) sequence of prescribed complex numbers
inside the unit disc.
Blaschke products were introduced by Wilhelm Blaschke (1915). They are related to Hardy spaces.
A sequence of points inside the unit disk is said to satisfy the Blaschke condition when
Given a sequence obeying the Blaschke condition, the Blaschke product is defined as
with factors
provided a ≠ 0. Here is the complex conjugate of a. When a = 0 take B(0,z) = z.
The Blaschke product B(z) defines a function analytic in the open unit disc, and zero exactly at the an (with multiplicity counted): furthermore it is in the Hardy class .