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 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...

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...

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,...

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.

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 $P\left(x\right)={\sum }_{j=0}^n{a}_j{x}^j$, $|a_0\left|\ge L\right({\sum }_{j=1}^n|a_j{{|}^p)}^{1/p}$, $a_j\in ℂ$, such that ${(x-1)}^k$ divides P(x). For n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and q ≥ 1 let ${\mu }_q(n,L)$ be the smallest value of k for which there is a polynomial Q of degree k with complex coefficients such that $\left|Q\left(0\right)\right|>1/L({\sum }_{j=1}^n{\left|Q\left(j\right)\right|}^q{)}^{1/q}$. We find the size of ${\kappa }_p(n,L)$ and ${\mu }_q(n,L)$ for all n ∈ ℕ, L > 0, and 1 ≤ p,q ≤ ∞. The result about ${\mu }_{\infty }(n,L)$ is due to Coppersmith and Rivlin, but our proof is completely different and much shorter even...

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 $R\left(x\right)$.

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 ∈...

By Descartes’ rule of signs, a real degree $d$ polynomial $P$ with all nonvanishing coefficients with $c$ sign changes and $p$ sign preservations in the sequence of its coefficients ($c+p=d$) has $\mathrm{pos}\le c$ positive and $\neg \le p$ negative roots, where $\mathrm{pos}\equiv c(mod2)$ and $\neg \equiv p(mod2)$. For $1\le d\le 3$, for every possible choice of the sequence of signs of coefficients of $P$ (called sign pattern) and for every pair $(\mathrm{pos},\mathrm{neg})$ satisfying these conditions there exists a polynomial $P$ with exactly $\mathrm{pos}$ positive and exactly $\neg$ negative roots (all of them simple). For $d\ge 4$...