On normal families of meromorphic functions (Q4431476)

Let \({\mathcal F}\) be a family of meromorphic functions in a domain \(D\) and let \(a\) be an analytic function in \(D\), non-vanishing in \(D\). Then the authors prove the following results: Let \(n\geq 3\) be a positive integer and \(K\) be a positive constant. Suppose that, for every function \(f\in{\mathcal F}\), \(f\) has only zeros of multiplicity at least \(n\) and satisfies the following conditions: (a) If \(z\in D\), then \(f^{(n)}(z)\neq a(z)\), (b) If \(z\in D\) and \(f(z)= 0\), then \(0<|f^{(n)}(z)|\leq k\). Then \({\mathcal F}\) is normal in \(D\). They also show that this theorem is not true for \(n= 2\). But it remains true for \(n=2\) if one adds some additional conditions, for instance (c) All poles of \(f\) are of multiplicity at least 3. The authors give some examples to show the sharpness of their results. These normality criteria generalize results of Bergweiler and Gu, respectively.