Arithmetical properties of certain infinite products (Q2344348)

The paper presents stronger versions of transcendence results by \textit{Y. Tachiya} [J. Number Theory 125, No. 1, 182--200 (2007; Zbl 1116.11053)] that -- under some favorable growth and arithmeticity conditions -- infinite products of rational functions take transcendental values at algebraic arguments, with the natural exception that the infinite product represents itself a rational function. The method of proof goes back to Mahler, see \textit{K. Nishioka} [Mahler functions and transcendence. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1631. Berlin: Springer (1996; Zbl 0876.11034)]. In comparison to the older literature, the authors can derive also transcendence measures of the values. They define also irrationality measures for power series; it turns out that for the functions in question here, irrationality implies transcendency.