Entire functions that share one value CM with their derivatives (Q1869002)

The authors consider in the paper the value sharing problem of an entire function and its derivatives. Improving some known results they prove the following main theorem. Theorem. Let \(f\) be a nonconstant entire function, \(a(\neq 0)\) be a finite constant and \(n,m (>n)\) be positive integers. If \(f\) and \(f'\) share the value \(a\) CM and if \(f^{(m)}(z)= f^{(n)}(z)=a\) whenever \(f(z)=a\) then \(f(z)= A\exp(\lambda z) +a - a/\lambda ,\) where \(A(\neq 0)\) and \(\lambda\) are constants such that \(\lambda^{n-1}= 1\) and \(\lambda^{m-1}= 1\).