Problems on \((f^{2})^{(k)}\) (Q2642157)

The paper under review concerns with the value distribution of meromorphic functions without simple zeros. The author proves the following results. (i) Let \(f\) be a transcendental meromorphic function and have only zeros of multiplicity at least \([\frac k2]+1\), \(k \in\mathbb N\). Then \((f^2)^{(k)}\) assumes every finite non-zero value infinitely often. (ii) Let \(F\) be a family of functions meromorphic in a domain \(U \subset \mathbb C\) and let \(n \geq 2, k\geq 0\), \(k+n >2\) and \(b \in {\mathbb C}, b \neq 0\). If each function \(f \in F\) satisfies \((f^n)^{(k)}\neq b\) and has only zeros of multiplicity \(\geq 1+[\frac kn]\), then \(F\) is normal in \(U\). These two theorems extend a few known results on this kind of problem.