Let ℱ be a family of meromorphic functions on a plane domain D, all of whose zeros are of multiplicity at least k ≥ 2. Let a, b, c, and d be complex numbers such that d ≠ b,0 and c ≠ a. If, for each f ∈ ℱ, $f\left(z\right)=a\iff f^{\left(k\right)}\left(z\right)=b$, and $f^{\left(k\right)}\left(z\right)=d\Rightarrow f\left(z\right)=c$, then ℱ is a normal family on D. The same result holds for k=1 so long as b≠(m+1)d, m=1,2,....

Let ℱ be a family of meromorphic functions defined in a domain D, let ψ (≢ 0, ∞) be a meromorphic function in D, and k be a positive integer. If, for every f ∈ ℱ and z ∈ D, (1) f≠ 0, $f^{\left(k\right)}\ne 0$; (2) all zeros of $f^{\left(k\right)}-\psi$ have multiplicities at least (k+2)/k; (3) all poles of ψ have multiplicities at most k, then ℱ is normal in D.

Let f be a transcendental meromorphic function and $g\left(z\right)=f(z+c₁)+\cdots +f(z+c_k)-kf\left(z\right)$ and $g_k\left(z\right)=f(z+c₁)\cdots f(z+c_k)-f^k\left(z\right)$. A number of results are obtained concerning the exponents of convergence of the zeros of g(z), $g_k\left(z\right)$, g(z)/f(z), and $g_k\left(z\right)/f^k\left(z\right)$.

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.

Let Mₚ denote the class of functions f of the form $f\left(z\right)=1/z^p+{\sum }_{k=0}^{\infty }aₖz^k$, p a positive integer, in the unit disk E = |z| < 1, f being regular in 0 < |z| < 1. Let $L_{n,p}\left(\alpha \right)=f:f\in Mₚ,Re-(z^{p+1}/p){\left(Dⁿf\right)}^{\text{'}}>\alpha$, α < 1, where $Dⁿf={\left(z^{n+p}f\left(z\right)\right)}^{\left(n\right)}/(z^{p}n!)$. Results on $L_{n,p}\left(\alpha \right)$ are derived by proving more general results on differential subordination. These results reduce, by putting p =1, to the recent results of Al-Amiri and Mocanu.

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,...

The problem of uniqueness of an entire or a meromorphic function when it shares a value or a small function with its derivative became popular among the researchers after the work of Rubel and Yang (1977). Several authors extended the problem to higher order derivatives. Since a linear differential polynomial is a natural extension of a derivative, in the paper we study the uniqueness of a meromorphic function that shares one small function CM with a linear differential polynomial, and...

Using the notion of weighted sharing of values which was introduced by Lahiri (2001), we deal with the uniqueness problem for meromorphic functions when two certain types of nonlinear differential monomials namely $h^n{h}^{\left(k\right)}$ $(h=f,g)$ sharing a nonzero polynomial of degree less than or equal to $3$ with finite weight have common poles and obtain two results. The results in this paper significantly rectify, improve and generalize the results due to Cao and Zhang (2012).

The authors introduce two new subclasses $F_{p,k}(\lambda ,A,B)$ and $G_{p,k}(\lambda ,A,B)$ of meromorphically multivalent functions. Distortion bounds and convolution properties for $F_{p,k}(\lambda ,A,B)$, $G_{p,k}(\lambda ,A,B)$ and their subclasses with positive coefficients are obtained. Some inclusion relations for these function classes are also given.

We investigate the distribution of zeros and shared values of the difference operator on meromorphic functions. In particular, we show that if f is a transcendental meromorphic function of finite order with a small number of poles, c is a non-zero complex constant such that ${\Delta }_c^{k}f\ne 0$ for n ≥ 2, and a is a small function with respect to f, then $fⁿ{\Delta }_c^{k}f$ equals a (≠ 0,∞) at infinitely many points. Uniqueness of difference polynomials with the same 1-points or fixed points is also proved.

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to weaken or omit the condition $dim{f}^{-1}\left(H_i\cap H_j\right)\le m-2$ for i ≠ j in some previous uniqueness theorems for meromorphic mappings. The second is to decrease the number q of hyperplanes $H_j$ such that f(z) = g(z) on ${\bigcup }_{j=1}^q{f}^{-1}\left(H_j\right)$, where f,g are meromorphic mappings.

We investigate the uniqueness problem of entire functions that share two polynomials with their $k$th derivatives and obtain some results which improve and generalize the recent result due to Lü and Yi (2011). Also, we exhibit some examples to show that the conditions of our results are the best possible.

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...

Given a germ $h$ of holomorphic function on $({ℂ}^n,0)$, we study the condition: “the ideal ${\text{Ann}}_{𝒟}1/h$ is generated by operators of order1”. We obtain here full characterizations in the particular cases of Koszul-free germs and unreduced germs of plane curves. Moreover, we prove that this condition holds for a special type of hyperplane arrangements. These results allow us to link this condition to the comparison of de Rham complexes associated with $h$.

Let f be meromorphic on the compact set E ⊂ C with maximal Green domain of meromorphy $E_{\rho \left(f\right)}$, ρ(f) < ∞. We investigate rational approximants $r_{n,mₙ}$ of f on E with numerator degree ≤ n and denominator degree ≤ mₙ. We show that a geometric convergence rate of order $\rho {\left(f\right)}^{-n}$ on E implies uniform maximal convergence in m₁-measure inside $E_{\rho \left(f\right)}$ if mₙ = o(n/log n) as n → ∞. If mₙ = o(n), n → ∞, then maximal convergence in capacity inside $E_{\rho \left(f\right)}$ can be proved at least for a subsequence Λ ⊂ ℕ. Moreover, an analogue...

Let f and g be entire functions, n, k and m be positive integers, and λ, μ be complex numbers with |λ| + |μ| ≠ 0. We prove that ${\left(fⁿ\left(z\right)(\lambda f^m\left(z\right)+\mu )\right)}^{(}k)$ must have infinitely many fixed points if n ≥ k + 2; furthermore, if ${\left(fⁿ\left(z\right)(\lambda f^m\left(z\right)+\mu )\right)}^{(}k)$ and ${\left(gⁿ\left(z\right)(\lambda g^m\left(z\right)+\mu )\right)}^{(}k)$ have the same fixed points with the same multiplicities, then either f ≡ cg for a constant c, or f and g assume certain forms provided that n > 2k + m* + 4, where m* is an integer that depends only on λ.

We obtain the basic analytic properties, i.e. meromorphic continuation, polar structure and bounds for the order of growth, of all the nonlinear twists with exponents $\le 1/d$ of the $L$-functions of any degree $d\ge 1$ in the extended Selberg class. In particular, this solves the resonance problem in all such cases.

This paper is devoted to considering the complex oscillation of differential polynomials generated by meromorphic solutions of the differential equation $$f^{\left(k\right)}+A_{k-1}\left(z\right)f^{(k-1)}+\cdots +A_1\left(z\right)f^{\text{'}}+A_0\left(z\right)f=0,$$ where $A_i\left(z\right)$ $(i=0,1,\cdots ,k-1)$ are meromorphic functions of finite order in the complex plane.

Let $f$ be a dominant rational map of ${\mathbb{P}}^k$ such that there exists $s\&lt;k$ with ${\lambda }_s\left(f\right)\&gt;{\lambda }_l\left(f\right)$ for all $l$. Under mild hypotheses, we show that, for $A$ outside a pluripolar set of $\mathrm{Aut}\left({\mathbb{P}}^k\right)$, the map $f\circ A$ admits a hyperbolic measure of maximal entropy $log{\lambda }_s\left(f\right)$ with explicit bounds on the Lyapunov exponents. In particular, the result is true for polynomial maps hence for the homogeneous extension of $f$ to ${\mathbb{P}}^{k+1}$. This provides many examples where non uniform hyperbolic dynamics is established. One of the key tools is to approximate...

For n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and p ≥ 1 let ${\kappa }_p(n,L)$ be the largest possible value of k for which there is a polynomial P ≠ 0 of the form $P\left(x\right)={\sum }_{j=0}^n{a}_j{x}^j$, $|a_0\left|\ge L\right({\sum }_{j=1}^n|a_j{|}^p$1/p$,$aj ∈ ℂ$,$such that ${(x-1)}^k$ divides P(x). For n ∈ ℕ and L > 0 let ${\kappa }_{\infty }(n,L)$ be the largest possible value of k for which there is a polynomial P ≠ 0 of the form $P\left(x\right)={\sum }_{j=0}^n{a}_j{x}^j$, $|a_0|\ge Lma{x}_{1\le j\le n}|a_j|$, $a_j\in ℂ$, such that ${(x-1)}^k$ divides P(x). We prove that there are absolute constants c₁ > 0 and c₂ > 0 such that $c_1\surd (n/L)-1\le {\kappa }_{\infty }(n,L)\le c_2\surd (n/L)$ for every L ≥ 1. This complements an earlier result of the authors valid for every n ∈ ℕ and L ∈...

Let K be a number field, X be a smooth projective curve over it and D be a reduced divisor on X. Let (E,∇) be a vector bundle with connection having meromorphic singularities on D. Let $p_1,...,p_s\in X\left(K\right)$ and $X^o:=X̅\setminus D,p_1,...,p_s$ (the $p_j$’s may be in the support of D). Using tools from Nevanlinna theory and formal geometry, we give the definition of E-section of arithmetic type of the vector bundle E with respect to the points $p_j$; this is the natural generalization of the notion of E-function defined in Siegel-Shidlovskiĭ...

Let ${\overline{L}}_i\to X_i$ be a holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex manifold for $i=1,2$. Let $S_i$ denote the associated principal circle-bundle with respect to some hermitian inner product on ${\overline{L}}_i$. We construct complex structures on $S=S_1\times S_2$ which we refer to as scalar, diagonal, and linear types. While scalar type structures always exist, the more general diagonal but non-scalar type structures are constructed assuming that ${\overline{L}}_i$ are equivariant ${\left({ℂ}^{*}\right)}^{n_i}$-bundles satisfying some additional conditions....

Let D and ∂D denote the open unit disk and the unit circle of the complex plane, respectively. We denote by ₙ (resp. ${ₙ}^c$) the set of all polynomials of degree at most n with real (resp. complex) coefficients. We define the truncation operators Sₙ for polynomials $Pₙ\in {ₙ}^c$ of the form $Pₙ\left(z\right):={\sum }_{j=0}^n{a}_j{z}_j$, $a_j\in C$, by $Sₙ\left(Pₙ\right)\left(z\right):={\sum }_{j=0}^{n}a{̃}_j{z}_j$, $a{̃}_j:=a_j\left|a_j\right|min|a_j|,1$ (here 0/0 is interpreted as 1). We define the norms of the truncation operators by $\parallel Sₙ{\parallel }_{\infty ,\partial D}^{real}:=su{p}_{Pₙ\in ₙ}(ma{x}_{z\in \partial D}\left|Sₙ\left(Pₙ\right)\left(z\right)\right|)/(ma{x}_{z\in \partial D}\left|Pₙ\left(z\right)\right|)$, $\parallel Sₙ{\parallel }_{\infty ,\partial D}^{comp}:=su{p}_{Pₙ\in {ₙ}^c}(ma{x}_{z\in \partial D}\left|Sₙ\left(Pₙ\right)\left(z\right)\right|)/(ma{x}_{z\in \partial D}\left|Pₙ\left(z\right)\right|$. Our main theorem establishes the right order of magnitude of the above norms: there is an absolute constant c₁...

Sia $K\subset \subset {ℝ}^n$ un compatto, $f\ge 0$ una funzione analitica all'intorno di $K$, ed $m$ la massima molteplicità in $K$ degli zeri di $f$; si prova che la potenza $f^{\lambda }$ ($\lambda \in ℂ$, $Re\lambda >\mathrm{—}\frac{1}{m}$) è integrabile in $K$. L'estensione meromorfa dell'applicazione $\lambda \to f^{\lambda }$ da $Re\lambda >0$ a tutto $ℂ$ (con valori in ${𝒟}^{\prime }(K)$ anziché in $L^1(K)$) era già stata provata in [1] e [2].

Let H and K be complex complete indefinite inner product spaces, and ℬ(H,K) (ℬ(H) if K = H) the set of all bounded linear operators from H into K. For every T ∈ ℬ(H,K), denote by $T^{†}$ the indefinite conjugate of T. Suppose that Φ: ℬ(H) → ℬ(K) is a bijective linear map. We prove that Φ satisfies $\Phi \left(A\right)\Phi \left(B\right)=\Phi \left(B\right)\Phi {\left(A\right)}^{†}$ for all A, B ∈ ℬ(H) with $AB=B{A}^{†}$ if and only if there exist a nonzero real number c and a generalized indefinite unitary operator U ∈ ℬ(H,K) such that $\Phi \left(A\right)=cUA{U}^{†}$ for all A ∈ ℬ(H).

The paper deals with the approximation by polynomials with integer coefficients in $L_p(0,1)$, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. Let $P_{n,r}$ be the space of polynomials of degree ≤ n which are divisible by the polynomial $x^r{(1-x)}^r$, r ≥ 0, and let $P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}}\subset P_{n,r}$ be the set of polynomials with integer coefficients. Let $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)$ be the maximal distance of elements of $P_{n,r}$ from $P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}}$ in $L_p(0,1)$. We give rather precise quantitative estimates of $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L₂)$ for n ≳ 6r. Then we obtain similar, somewhat less precise, estimates of $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)$ for p ≠ 2. It follows that $\mu (P_{n,r}^{\mathbb{Z}};L_p)\asymp n^{-2r-2/p}$ as n → ∞. The results...