Meromorphic functions that share some pairs of small functions (Q1017355)

Let \(f\) and \(g\) be two nonconstant meromorphic functions, and \(a\) and \(b\) be two small meromorphic functions with respect to both of \(f\) and \(g\). Denote by \(\overline N(r,f=a,g=b)\) the counting function which counts the common zeros of \(f-a\) and \(g-b\) where each zero is counted only once. Denote by \(\overline N_E(r,f= a,g=b)\) the counting function which counts the common zeros of \(f-a\) and \(g-b\) with the same multiplicies where each zero is counted only once. The authors say that \(f\) and \(g\) share the pair \((a,b)\) in the sense of IM\(^*\) provided that \(\overline N(r,\frac{1}{f-a})-\overline N(r,f=a,g=b)=S(r,f)\) and \(\overline N(r,\frac{1}{g-b})-\overline N(r,f=a,g=b)=S(r,f)\). They say that \(f\) and \(g\) share the pair \((a,b)\) in the sense of CM\(^*\) provided that \(\overline N(r,\frac {1}{f-a})-\overline N_E(r,f=a,g=b)=S(r,f)\) and \(\overline N(r,\frac{1}{g-b})-\overline N_E(r,f=a,g=b)=S(r,f)\). In this paper, the authors show three theorems and two corollaries. We state one of them below. Let \(f\) be \(g\) two nonconstant meromorphic functions, and \(a_i,b_i\) \((i=1,2,3,4; a_i\neq a_j,b_i\neq b_j,i\neq j)\) be small functions \(f\) and \(g\). If \(f\) and \(g\) share three pairs \((a_i,b_i)\) \((i=1,2,3)\) \(\text{CM}^*\), and share the fourth pair \((a_4, b_4)\) \(\text{IM}^*\), then \(f\) is a quasi-Möbius transformation of \(g\). The authors give several examples which imply that the conditions in the theorems cannot be removed.