A note on partial sharing of values of meromorphic functions with their shifts (Q898846)

Let \(f\) be a meromorphic function on \(\mathbb{C}\). A meromorphic function \(\omega\) such that \(T(r,\omega) =o(T(r, f))\), where \(r\to\infty\) outside of a possible exceptional set of finite logarithmic measure, is called a small function of \(f\). The family of all small functions of \(f\) is denoted by \(\mathcal{S}(f)\) and \(\hat{\mathcal{S}}(f)=\mathcal{S}(f)\cup\{\infty\}\). It is proved that if \(f\) is a meromorphic function of hyper-order \(<1\), \(c\in\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}\), \(a_1,a_2,a_3\in\hat{\mathcal{S}}(f)\) are distinct periodic functions with period \(c\) such that \(f(z)\) share \(a_1,a_2,a_3\) partially with \(f(z+c)\) and \(\sum_{k=1}^3\delta(a_k,f)>1\), then \(f(z)\equiv f(z+c)\). A similar result is proved if \(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4\in\hat{\mathcal{S}}(f)\) and \(\delta(a,f)>0\) for some \(a\in\hat{\mathcal{S}}(f)\).