On the growth of solutions of second order linear differential equations with extremal coefficients (Q1940863)

The authors consider the second-order linear differential equation of the form \[ f''+A(z)f'+B(z)f = 0, \] where \(A\) and \(B\) are entire functions. The main result is that, if \(A\) is extremal for Yang's inequality, in the sense that the number of finite deficient values is equal to half of the number of Borel directions, and if the orders of \(A\) and \(B\) are not the same, then every non-trivial solution \(f\) of the equation is of infinite order.