Global properties of the Painlevé transcendents: new results and open questions.
We investigate the growth and fixed points of meromorphic solutions of higher order linear differential equations with meromorphic coefficients and their derivatives. Our results extend the previous results due to Peng and Chen.
The main purpose of this paper is to partly answer a question of L. Z. Yang [Israel J. Math. 147 (2005), 359-370] by proving that every entire solution f of the differential equation has infinite order and its hyperorder is a positive integer or infinity, where P is a nonconstant entire function of order less than 1/2. As an application, we obtain a uniqueness theorem for entire functions related to a conjecture of Brück [Results Math. 30 (1996), 21-24].