Order, type and cotype of growth for \(p\)-adic entire functions: a survey with additional properties (Q1702088)

This paper is a survey of previous work by the authors on analytic and meromorphic functions on a non-Archimedean valued, algebraically closed, field \(\mathbb{K}\) that is complete with respect to the non-Archimedean (ultrametric) absolute value and has characteristic \(0\); the paper includes new results as well. Given an entire function \(f\) and a positive real number \(r\), let \begin{align*} |f|(r )&=\sup\{|f(x)|: x\in\mathbb{K}, |x|=r\};\\ q(f,r)&= \text{ the number of zeros of \(f\) in the disk of radius \(r\) centered at \(0\)};\\ \rho(f)&=\limsup_{r\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\log(\log(|f|(r )))}{\log r};\\ \sigma(f)&=\limsup_{r\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\log(|f|(r ))}{ r^{\rho(f)}}\text{ for }\rho(f)\ne 0,\infty;\\ \psi(f)&=\limsup_{r\rightarrow\infty}\frac{ q(f,r)}{ r^{\rho(f)}} \text{ for }\rho(f)\ne 0,\infty. \end{align*} Then \(\rho(f)\), \(\sigma(f)\) and \(\psi(f)\) are called the order of growth, the type of growth and cotype of growth of \(f\), respectively. The paper covers several relations (equalities and inequalities) among \(\rho(\cdot)\), \(\sigma(\cdot)\) and \(\psi(\cdot)\) for both \(f\) and \(f^\prime\); for example, the authors show that \[ \rho(f)\sigma(f)\le\psi(f)\le e \rho(f)\sigma(f). \] The paper also includes other results that are based on \(\rho(\cdot)\), \(\sigma(\cdot)\) and \(\psi(\cdot)\) for \(f\) and \(f^\prime\). For example, the authors show that if \(f\) is an entire function on \(\mathbb{K}\) and if \(\rho(f)<\infty\) then \(f^\prime/f^2\) takes every value infinitely many times; that is, for every \(b\in\mathbb{K}\), \( f^\prime/f^2-b\) has infinitely many zeros.