meromorphic extension
Let and be analytic. A meromorphic extension of is a meromorphic function such that .
The meromorphic extension of an analytic function to a larger domain (http://planetmath.org/Domain) is unique; i.e. (http://planetmath.org/Ie), using the above notation, if has the property that , then on .
Occasionally, an analytic function and its meromorphic extension are denoted using the same notation. A common example of this phenomenon is the Riemann zeta function.