An invitation to the study of univalent and multivalent functions.
The survey collects many recent advances on area Nevanlinna type classes and related spaces of analytic functions in the unit disk concerning zero sets and factorization representations of these classes and discusses approaches, used in proofs of these results.
The paper discusses development of the theory of value distribution and growth of meromorphic functions, focusing on two basic notions: exceptional values and asymptotic values. Some historical context is given and contemporary achievements are presented. In particular, recent results concerning exceptional functions and asymptotic functions are considered.
Let E be a compact set in the complex plane, be the Green function of the unbounded component of with pole at infinity and where the supremum is taken over all polynomials of degree at most n, and . The paper deals with recent results concerning a connection between the smoothness of (existence, continuity, Hölder or Lipschitz continuity) and the growth of the sequence . Some additional conditions are given for special classes of sets.