Elliptic orthogonal polynomials and OPRL

We explore a class of meromorphic functions on elliptic curves, termed elliptic orthogonal a-polynomials ( a -EOPs), which extend the classical notion of orthogonal polynomials to compact Riemann surfaces of genus one. Building on Bertola's construction of orthogonal sections, we study these functions via non-Hermitian orthogonality on the torus, establish their recurrence properties, and derive an analogue of the Christoffel–Darboux formula. We demonstrate that, under real-valued orthogonality conditions, a -EOPs exhibit interlacing and simplicity of zeros similar to orthogonal polynomials on the real line (OPRL). Furthermore, we construct a general correspondence between families of OPRL and elliptic orthogonal functions, including a decomposition into multiple orthogonality relations, and identify new interlacing phenomena induced by rational deformations of the orthogonality weight.