Fixed points of meromorphic solutions for difference Riccati equation (Q373725)

In this paper, the authors treat meromorphic solutions of the difference Riccati equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINEf(z+1)=\frac{A(z)+\delta f(z)}{\delta-f(z)},\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(A(z)\) is a non-constant rational function, and is not a polynomial. They consider fixed points of shifts and differences of meromorphic solutions of (1) when \(\delta=\pm1\) and \(\deg A=2\). For a meromorphic function \(f(z)\), they define NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\tau(f)=\limsup_{r\to\infty}\frac{\log N(r,\frac{1}{f-z})}{\log r}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE They show that every finite order transcendental meromorphic solution of (1) satisfies (i) \(\tau(f(z+n))=\sigma(f(z))\), \(n=1, 2, \dots \); (ii) if there is a rational function \(m(z)\) satisfying NEWLINE\[NEWLINEm(z)^2=\left(\frac{z}{1+z}\right)^2-\frac{4A(z)}{1+z},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE then \(\tau(\frac{\Delta f(z)}{f(z)})=\sigma(f(z))\); (iii) if there is a rational function \(n(z)\) satisfying \(n(z)^2=z^2-4A(z)\), then \(\tau(\Delta f(z))=\sigma(f(z))\). The condition ``finite order'' is required. In general, (i) does not always hold for infinite order meromorphic functions.NEWLINENEWLINE This work is a continuation of [the second author and \textit{K. H. Shon}, Acta Math. Sin., Engl. Ser. 27, No. 6, 1091--1100 (2011; Zbl 1218.30076)].