Characterizations of generalized poles by pole cancellation functions of higher order

In this paper the analytic characterization of generalized poles of operator valued generalized Nevanlinna functions (including the length of Jordan chains of the representing relation) is completed. In particular, given a Jordan chain of length $\ell$, we show that there exists a pole cancellation function of order at least $\ell$, and, moreover, this function is of surprisingly simple form.