Removable sets in the oscillation theory of complex differential equations (Q1378670)

The paper considers differential equations of the form \(f''+ A(z)f=0\), where \(A(z)\) is an entire function. The zero-distribution of the solution to this type of differential equation is considered from a geometric point of view whereby the author shows that the zero-distribution of \(E=f_1 f_2\) where \(f_1,f_2\) are two linearly independent solutions of the differential equation of uniform in a certain sense. The author defines for \(s>r>1\), \(\varphi, \eta\) real numbers satisfying \(0\leq \varphi <2\pi\), \(0<\eta <\pi\) the annuli, \(D(r,s)= \{z=\rho e^{i\theta} \in\mathbb{C}: r<\rho <s\}\), and an annular rectangle, \(D(r,s, \varphi,\eta) =\{z= \rho e^{i \theta} \in\mathbb{C}: r<\rho<s, |\theta- \varphi |< \eta\}\). Three theorems are then proven under the assumption that the exponents of convergence for the zero-sequences of the linearly independent solutions, \(f_1f_2\) satisfy \(\lambda (f_1) \lambda(f_2) =\infty\). It is then proven that the zero-sequences for \(E=f_1 f_2\) are uniformly distributed in the sense that quite large areas of the complex plane can be removed so that outside of these areas the contained zeros when counted for its exponents of convergence still remain infinite which regard to their maximums. A typical theorem proven is as follows: Theorem 1. Given \(s>1\), let \((R_m)\) be a sequence of \(r\)-values such that \(R_{m+1} >sR_n\), and let \((\varphi_m)\) be a sequence of real numbers such that \(0\leq\varphi_m<2\pi\). Moreover, fix \(\eta\) and \(K\) so that \(0<\eta <\pi\) and \(1<K<s\), and consider \[ D:= \bigcup^\infty_{m=1} D(R_m, KR_m, \varphi_m, \eta). \] Let now \(A(z)\) be transcendental entire of finite order \(\rho (A)\), and let \(f_1, f_2\) be two linearly independent solutions of our differential equation such that for \(E:= f_1f_2\), \(\lambda(E) =\infty\). Then \(\lambda_{\mathbb{C} \setminus D} (E)= \infty\). This paper is very well written.