Ramification and unintegrated valued distribution (Q1081726)

Let f be a holomorphic map from \({\mathbb{C}}\) into a Riemann sphere \({\mathcal S}\) of surface area 1. In contrast with the known estimates for the integrated counting function of the ramification prints of f, the paper introduces a ''proximate counting function'' and estimates the same, from above, under suitable conditions. In particular the discussion views \({\mathcal S}\times {\mathcal S}\) as a complex manifold and skilfully handles some appropriate differential forms etc. In order to be more explicit, let \(r,\alpha \in (0,+\infty)\), \(c\in {\mathbb{C}}\), \(B(r)=\{z\in {\mathbb{C}}:| z| \leq r\}\), L(f,r) and A(f,r) be as in Nevanlinna theory, h and \(f_ h\) be the functions defined by \(h(z)=c\) for all \(z\in {\mathbb{C}}\) or \(h(z)=cz\) for all \(z\in {\mathbb{C}}\) and \(f_ h(z)=f(z+h(z))\) for all \(z\in {\mathbb{C}},{\mathcal P}(r,h,\alpha)\) be the union of the components, which intersect \(\partial B(r)\), of the set of all \(z\in {\mathbb{C}}\) such that the chordal distance between f(z) and \(f_ h(z)\) (in S) is \(\alpha\). The ''proximate counting'' is given by \(n_ 1(r,h,\alpha)\) denoting the number of \(z\in B(r)-P(r,h,\alpha)\) at which \(f\times f_ n\) intersects the diagonal of \(S\times S\) under counting multiplicity in a specified manner. The following are discussed. Theorem: \(f(z)\neq f_ h(z)\) for all \(z\in \partial B(r)\Rightarrow n_ 1(r,h,\alpha)\leq A(f,r)+A(f_ n,r)+(L(f,r)+L(f_ h,r))/(\pi \alpha).\) Corollary: \(n_ 1(r,h,\alpha)\leq 2A(f,r)+o(A(f,r))\) as \(r\to +\infty\) outside a set of finite log measure when \(c=\exp (i\beta)-1\) where \(\beta\) is real such that ''the hypothesis of the theorem is satisfied''.