Entire solutions of certain type of differential equations (Q2427762)

Using Nevanlinna's theory the author investigates the solutions of certain type of differential equations. He proves three theorems in the paper of which the following is in connection to a conjecture proposed by the author himself and C. C. Yang in 2006: Suppose that \(n \geq 2\) is a positive integer, \(p_{i}\) \((i = 1, 2)\) are small functions of \(e^{z}\) and \(\alpha_{i}\) \((i = 1, 2)\) are positive numbers satisfying \((n - 1)\alpha_{2} \geq n\alpha_{1} >0\). If \(\alpha_{1}/\alpha_{2}\) is irrational, then the differential equation \(f^{n}(z) + P(f) = p_{1}e^{\alpha_{1}z} + p_{2}e^{\alpha_{2}z}\) has no entire solution, where \(P(f)\) is a differential polynomial in \(f\) of degree \(\leq n - 1\).