Let $k$ be a nonnegative integer or infinity. For $a\in ℂ\cup \left\{\infty \right\}$ we denote by $E_k(a;f)$ the set of all $a$-points of $f$ where an $a$-point of multiplicity $m$ is counted $m$ times if $m\le k$ and $k+1$ times if $m>k$. If $E_k(a;f)=E_k(a;g)$ then we say that $f$ and $g$ share the value $a$ with weight $k$. Using this idea of sharing values we study the uniqueness of meromorphic functions whose certain nonlinear differential polynomials share a nonzero polynomial with finite weight. The results of the paper improve and generalize the related results due to...

The main objective of this paper is to give the specific forms of the meromorphic solutions of the nonlinear difference-differential equation $$f^n\left(z\right)+P_d(z,f)=p_1\left(z\right){\mathrm{e}}^{{\alpha }_1\left(z\right)}+p_2\left(z\right){\mathrm{e}}^{{\alpha }_2\left(z\right)},$$ where $P_d(z,f)$ is a difference-differential polynomial in $f\left(z\right)$ of degree $d\le n-1$ with small functions of $f\left(z\right)$ as its coefficients, $p_1$, $p_2$ are nonzero rational functions and ${\alpha }_1$, ${\alpha }_2$ are non-constant polynomials. More precisely, we find out the conditions for ensuring the existence of meromorphic solutions of the above equation.

We prove the existence of sequences ${\varrho ₙ}_{n=1}^{\infty }$, ϱₙ → 0⁺, and ${zₙ}_{n=1}^{\infty }$, |zₙ| = 1/2, such that for every α ∈ ℝ and for every meromorphic function G(z) on ℂ, there exists a meromorphic function $F\left(z\right)=F_{G,\alpha }\left(z\right)$ on ℂ such that $\varrho {ₙ}^{\alpha }F(nzₙ+n\varrho ₙ\zeta )$ converges to G(ζ) uniformly on compact subsets of ℂ in the spherical metric. As a result, we construct a family of functions meromorphic on the unit disk that is $Q_m$-normal for no m ≥ 1 and on which an extension of Zalcman’s Lemma holds.

With the idea of normal family we study the uniqueness of meromorphic functions $f$ and $g$ when $f^n{\left(f^{\left(k\right)}\right)}^m-p$ and $g^n{\left(g^{\left(k\right)}\right)}^m-p$ share two values, where $p$ is any nonzero polynomial. The result of this paper significantly improves and generalizes the result due to A. Banerjee and S. Majumder (2018).

Let $X$ and $Y$ be compact Kähler manifolds, and let $f:X\to Y$ be a dominant meromorphic map. Based upon a regularization theorem of Dinh and Sibony for DSH currents, we define a pullback operator $f^{♯}$ for currents of bidegrees $(p,p)$ of finite order on $Y$ (and thus forcurrent, since $Y$ is compact). This operator has good properties as may be expected. Our definition and results are compatible to those of various previous works of Meo, Russakovskii and Shiffman, Alessandrini and Bassanelli, Dinh and Sibony,...

Firstly we study the growth of meromorphic solutions of linear difference equation of the form$$A_k\left(z\right)f(z+c_k)+\cdots +A_1\left(z\right)f(z+c_1)+A_0\left(z\right)f\left(z\right)=F\left(z\right),$$ where $A_k\left(z\right),...,A_0\left(z\right)$ and $F\left(z\right)$ are meromorphic functions of finite logarithmic order, $c_i$ $(i=1,...,k,k\in \mathbb{N})$ are distinct nonzero complex constants. Secondly, we deal with the growth of solutions of differential-difference equation of the form $$\sum _{i=0}^n\sum _{j=0}^m{A}_{ij}\left(z\right)f^{\left(j\right)}(z+c_i)=F\left(z\right),$$ where $A_{ij}\left(z\right)$ $(i=0,1,...,n,j=0,1,...,m,n,m\in \mathbb{N})$ and $F\left(z\right)$ are meromorphic functions of finite logarithmic order, $c_i$ $(i=0,...,n)$ are distinct complex constants. We extend some previous results...

It is known that if $f$ is holomorphic in the open unit disc $𝔻$ of the complex plane and if, for some $c>0$, $\left|f\left(z\right)\right|\le {1/(1-|z|}^2{)}^c$, $z\in 𝔻$, then $|f^{\text{'}}{\left(z\right)|\le 2(c+1)/(1-\left|z\right|}^2{)}^{c+1}$. We consider a meromorphic analogue of this result. Furthermore, we introduce and study the class of meromorphic Bloch-type functions that possess a nonzero simple pole in $𝔻$. In particular, we obtain bounds for the modulus of the Taylor coefficients of functions in this class.

Let $G$ be a group and $\omega \left(G\right)$ be the set of element orders of $G$. Let $k\in \omega \left(G\right)$ and $m_k\left(G\right)$ be the number of elements of order $k$ in $G$. Let nse$\left(G\right)=\{m_k\left(G\right):k\in \omega \left(G\right)\}$. Assume $r$ is a prime number and let $G$ be a group such that nse$\left(G\right)=$ nse$\left(S_r\right)$, where $S_r$ is the symmetric group of degree $r$. In this paper we prove that $G\cong S_r$, if $r$ divides the order of $G$ and $r^2$ does not divide it. To get the conclusion we make use of some well-known results on the prime graphs of finite simple groups and their components.

In this paper, we examine a natural question concerning the divisors of the polynomial $x^n-1$: “How often does $x^n-1$ have a divisor of every degree between $1$ and $n$?” In a previous paper, we considered the situation when $x^n-1$ is factored in $\mathbb{Z}\left[x\right]$. In this paper, we replace $\mathbb{Z}\left[x\right]$ with ${𝔽}_p\left[x\right]$, where $p$ is an arbitrary-but-fixed prime. We also consider those $n$ where this condition holds for all $p$.

Given an integer $n\ge 3$, let $u_1,...,u_n$ be pairwise coprime integers $\ge 2$, $𝒟$ a family of nonempty proper subsets of $\{1,...,n\}$ with “enough” elements, and $\epsilon$ a function $𝒟\to \{\pm 1\}$. Does there exist at least one prime $q$ such that $q$ divides ${\prod }_{i\in I}{u}_i-\epsilon \left(I\right)$ for some $I\in 𝒟$, but it does not divide $u_1\cdots u_n$? We answer this question in the positive when the $u_i$ are prime powers and $\epsilon$ and $𝒟$ are subjected to certain restrictions. We use the result to prove that, if ${\epsilon }_0\in \{\pm 1\}$ and $A$ is a set of three or more primes that contains all prime divisors of any...

Let $P$ be a polynomial with integral coefficients. Shapiro showed that if the values of $P$ at infinitely many blocks of consecutive integers are of the form $Q\left(m\right)$, where $Q$ is a polynomial with integral coefficients, then $P\left(x\right)=Q\left(R\right(x\left)\right)$ for some polynomial $R$. In this paper, we show that if the values of $P$ at finitely many blocks of consecutive integers, each greater than a provided bound, are of the form $m^q$ where $q$ is an integer greater than 1, then $P\left(x\right)={\left(R\left(x\right)\right)}^q$ for some polynomial $R\left(x\right)$.

We consider the equation $$-y^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)+q\left(x\right)y(x-\varphi \left(x\right))=f\left(x\right),x\in ℝ,$$ where $\varphi$ and $q$ ($q\ge 1$) are positive continuous functions for all $x\in ℝ$ and $f\in C\left(ℝ\right)$. By a solution of the equation we mean any function $y$, continuously differentiable everywhere in $ℝ$, which satisfies the equation for all $x\in ℝ$. We show that under certain additional conditions on the functions $\varphi$ and $q$, the above equation has a unique solution $y$, satisfying the inequality $$\parallel y^{\text{'}}{\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)}+{\parallel qy\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)}\le c{\parallel f\parallel }_{C\left(ℝ\right)},$$ where the constant $c\in (0,\infty )$ does not depend on the choice of $f$.