No label defined (Q4520128)

It's been known for a long time that the integrability of an entire function on \(R\) imposes strong restrictions on its asymptotic behavior as \(x \rightarrow \pm \infty \). Thus, \textit{M. Plancherel} and \textit{G. Pólya} [Comment. Math. Helv. 9, 224-248 (1937; Zbl 0016.36004) and ibid. 10, 110-163 (1938; Zbl 0018.15204)] proved that if \(f\) is an entire function of exponential type and \(f \in L^p (R), p>0\), then \(f(x) \rightarrow 0\) as \(x \rightarrow \pm \infty \). In the paper under review the author proves that if \(f\) is an entire function of order \(\rho \) and normal type, \(f(x) \geq 0\) for \(x \in R\), and \(f \in L^1 (R)\), then \(f(x) = o(|x|)^{\rho -1}\), \(x \rightarrow \pm \infty \). The author also extends this result for a more general scale of growth and studies the preciseness of the result. The conclusion is non-trivial only for \(\rho \geq 1\), since if \(\rho < 1\), then \(f \in L^p (R)\), \(p>0\), implies \(f \equiv 0\).