Erdős-Turʼan-Type Discrepancy for the Zeros of Rational Functions

In 1950 P. Erdős and P. Turán published a discrepancy theorem for the zeros of a polynomial. Therein, the maximum deviation of the normalized zero counting measure from the equilibrium measure of the unit circle is estimated. Many other discrepancy theorems and related propositions about weak-star-convergence of the zero distribution of a sequence of polynomials were proved during the last decades. For several years the weak-star-convergence of the zero distribution of a sequence of rational functions is also studied. The main result of this paper is a discrepancy theorem for the zero distribution of a rational function which generalizes and sharpens previous propositions about weak-star-convergence of the zero counting measure of sequences of rational functions and known discrepancy theorems for polynomials.