We give a positive answer to a question of Horst Tietz. A theorem of his that is related to the Mittag-Leffler theorem looks like a duality result under some locally convex topology on the space of meromorphic functions. Tietz has posed the problem of finding such a topology. It is shown that a topology introduced by Holdgriin in 1973 solves the problem. The main tool in the study of this topology is a projective description of it that is derived here. We also argue that Holdgriin's topology is the natural locally convex topology on the space of meromorphic functions.1991 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc): primary 30D30, 46E10; secondary 12J99, 46E25.
A problem of TietzLet Q be adomain in C. One natural way of endowing the space M(Q) of meromorphic functions in £2 with a topology is the following. One regards M (£2) as a subspace of the space C(£2, C) of all continuous functions on Q with values in the extended complex plane C, where C carries the chordal metric and C(Q, C) is endowed with the topology of locally uniform convergence. With the inherited topology, r chO r say, M(Q) becomes a metric space; and it is complete if we add the function / ( z ) = oo (cf. [13, VII.3]