From normality to \(Q_m\)-normality (Q2492969)

A family \(\mathcal F\) of meromorphic functions on a plane domain \(D\) is said to be \(Q_m\)-normal (\(m=0,1,\dots \)) if each sequence \(S\) of elements of \(\mathcal F\) contains a subsequence which converges locally spherically uniformly on \(D\setminus E\) ,where \(E=E(S)\) is a subset of \(D\) with \(E_D^ {(m)}=\emptyset \). (Here \(E_D^ {(m)}\) is the \(m\)-th derived set of \(E\) in \(D\).) Notice that a \(Q_0\)-family is a normal family, and a \(Q_1\)-family is a quasi-normal function. In this paper the author extends three conditions of normality to those of \(Q_m\)-normality.