Finite Blaschke Products as Compositions of Other Finite Blaschke Products

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Authors: Carl C. Cowen 

Publication date: 17 July 2012

Abstract: These notes answer the question "When can a finite Blaschke product $B$ be written as a composition of two finite Blaschke products $B_1$ and $B_2$, that is, $B=B_{1}circ{B}_2$, in a non-trivial way, that is, where the order of each is greater than 1." It is shown that a group can be computed from $B$ and its local inverses, and that compositional factorizations correspond to normal subgroups of this group. This manuscript was written in 1974 but not published because it was pointed out to the author that this was primarily a reconstruction of work of Ritt from 1922 and 1923, who reported on work on polynomials. It is being made public now because of recent interest in this subject by several mathematicians interested in different aspects of the problem and interested in applying these ideas to complex analysis and operator theory.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05)

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