On the uniqueness problems of entire functions and their linear differential polynomials (Q2372840)

In the paper the authors prove the following theorem, which improves some earlier results: Let \(f\) be a transcendental entire function and let \(L[f] = \sum\limits_{j = 2}^{m}a_{j}f^{(j)}\) \( (a_{m} \not\equiv 0)\) be a linear differential polynomial with rational coefficients. If \(f\) and \(f'\) share a non-zero polynomial \(a\) of degree \(p\) CM and \(L[f] = a\) whenever \(f = a\), then \(f\) assumes the form \(f(z) = c\exp(bz) + (b - 1)\Phi(z)\), where \(b\) , \(c\) are non-zero constants and \(\displaystyle \Phi = \sum\limits_{j = 1}^{p + 1} \frac{a^{(j - 1)}}{b^{j}}\). In particular, \(\Phi\) satisfies \(\displaystyle \{a - (b - 1)\Phi\} \sum\limits_{k = 2}^{m}a_{k}b^{k} \equiv a - (b - 1)L[\Phi]\).