Common universal meromorphic functions for translation and dilation mappings (Q2100150): Difference between revisions

The author proves two interesting results in the realm of universal meromorphic functions. To state these, let $M(U)$ be the space of meromorphic functions on the planar domain $U$ endowed with the topology of locally uniform convergence with respect to the chordal metric, and let $\mathbb C^*:=\mathbb C\setminus\{0\}$. For $\lambda\in \mathbb C^*$, let $T_\lambda: M(\mathbb C)\to M(\mathbb C)$ with $T_\lambda f(z):=f(z+\lambda)$ be the translation operator and $D_\lambda:M(\mathbb C^*)\to M(\mathbb C^*)$ with $D_\lambda f(z):=f(\lambda z)$ the dilation operator. If $U=\mathbb C$ or $\mathbb C^*$, a function $f\in M(U)$ is called universal for these operators $T$ if the orbit $\{T^{n} (f): n\in \mathbb N\}$ is dense in $M(U)$. Here of course $T^{n}$ is the $n$-th iterate of $T$. Denoting the set of all universal functions for the operator $T$ by $\mathcal U(T)$, it is shown that the set of common universal functions \[ \displaystyle \bigcap_{\lambda \in \mathbb C^*} \mathcal U(T_\lambda) \] and \[ \displaystyle \bigcap_{\substack{\lambda \in \mathbb C^*\\ |\lambda|\not=1}} \mathcal U(D_\lambda) \] are dense $G_\delta$-subsets of $M(\mathbb C)$ respectively $M(\mathbb C^*)$. It is interesting to mention that in the case of holomorphic functions on $\mathbb C^*$, there is no universal function for $D_\lambda$.