Non-existence of unbounded Fatou components of a meromorphic function (Q839295)

The authors prove a result about the Fatou components of transcendental meromorphic functions of the complex plane. Specifically, they show that if \(f\) is a function is a transcendental meromorphic function satisfying certain growth conditions, then the Fatou set of \(f\) has no unbounded components. To state the theorem, a little notation is required. Let \(f\) be a meromorphic function and let \(f\) be a real number. In Nevanlinna theory, one defines \[ L(r,f)= \min\{|f(z)|: |z|=r\} \] and \[ T(r,f)= \int_0^{2 \pi} \log^+ |f(r e^{i\theta})| \, d \theta+ \int_0^r \frac{n(t,f)- n(0,f)}{t} \, dt+ n(0,f)\log r \] where \(n(t,f)\) is the number of poles of \(f\) in the disc \(\{ |z| \leq t\}\). The following is the main theorem of the paper. Theorem 1.3. Let \(f(z)\) be a transcendental meromorphic function such that for some \(\alpha \in (0,1)\) and \(D > d > 1\) and all sufficiently large \(r\), there exists a \(t \in [r,r^d]\) satsifying \[ \log L(f,f) > \alpha T(r,f), \] and \[ T(r^d, f) > D T(r,f). \] Then the Fatou set of \(f\) has no unbounded components. This extends work of \textit{J. Zheng} and \textit{S. Wang} [Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 35, No. 10, 1137--1148 (2004; Zbl 1084.30026)] and can be seen as a continuation of work on the subject of conditions ensuring that a function has no unbounded Fatou components, a topic that began out of questions raised by I. N. Baker in 1984.