Uniqueness of meromorphic functions and question of Gross (Q1340026)

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    Uniqueness of meromorphic functions and question of Gross (English)
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    19 September 1995
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    The author proves new uniqueness theorems for entire and meromorphic functions. The initial is the work of R. Nevanlinna (1929). The investigations extended Hiong King-Lai (1955, 1958, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963), F. Gross (1968, 1977) Yi, Hong-Xun (1988, 1988, 1990, 1990), K. Tohge (1988). There are five theorems in the article. Let \(f(z)\) be a meromorphic function in \(\mathbb{C}\), \(S \subset \mathbb{C}\) be a set, \(E_ f(S) = \bigcup_{\alpha \in S} \{z \mid f(z) - \alpha = 0\}\) where zeroes of the equation \(f(z) - \alpha = 0\) counted with correct multiplicity, \(W = \text{exp} \left( {2\pi i\over n}\right)\), \(n \in \mathbb{N}\). Theorem 2. Let \(S = \{a + b, a + bW, \dots, a + bW^{n - 1}\}\) where \(n > 8\), \(b \neq 0\). If \(f\) and \(g\) are meromorphic functions such that \(E_ f(S) = E_ g(S)\), then \(f - a = t(g - a)\) where \(t^ n = 1\) or \((f - a) (g - a) = \tau\) where \(\tau^ n = b^{2n}\). When \(f\) and \(g\) are entire functions the condition \(n > s\) can be replaced by \(n > 4\). Theorem 5. Let \(S_ 1 = \{a + b, \dots, a + bW^{n-1}\}\), \(S_ 2 = \{c_ 1, c_ 2\}\) where \(n > 8\), \(b \neq 0\), \((c_ 1 - a)^ n \neq (c_ 2 - a)^ n\), \((c_ k - a)^ n (c_ j - a)^ n \neq b^{2n}\) \((k, j = 1,2\)). Suppose that \(f\) and \(g\) are nonconstant meromorphic functions satisfying \(E_ f(S_ j) = E_ g(S_ j)\) for \(j = 1,2\), then \(f = g\). Theorem 5 answers a question posed by F. Gross (1977).
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    entire function
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    uniqueness theorems
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    meromorphic functions
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