Sunyer-i-Balaguer's almost elliptic functions and Yosida's normal functions (Q940796)

The paper deals with the following two classes of meromorphic functions in the complex plane: the class \(\mathcal{AE}\) of almost elliptic functions in the sense of Sunyer-i-Balaguer and the class \(\mathcal{N}_1\) of normal functions of the first category in the sense of K.Yosida. The class \(\mathcal{AE}\) consists of meromorphic functions \(f\) such that the family \(\{f(z+h)\}_{h \in \mathbb{C} }\) is normal with respect to uniform convergence in the whole complex plane. The class \(\mathcal{N}_1\) consists of meromorphic functions \(f\) such that the family \(\{f(z+h)\}_{h \in \mathbb{C} }\) is normal with respect to uniform convergence on compacta in the complex plane and no limit point of the family is a constant function. The author studies the properties of these classes. He gives necessary and sufficient conditions for two sequences \(\{a_n\}\) and \(\{b_n\}\) of complex numbers to be zeros and poles respectively of some function \(f\) from \(\mathcal{N}_1.\) Moreover, in the paper it is obtained the following representation for functions \(f\) from \(\mathcal{N}_1\): each \(\mathcal{N}_1-\)function up to a constant factor has the form \[ f(z)=e^{\alpha z}\lim_{r \to \infty}\frac{\prod_{n:| a_n| <r}(1-z/a_n)e^{z/a_n}}{\prod_{n:| b_n| <r}(1-z/b_n)e^{z/b_n}}. \] Here the limit exists uniformly on compacta in \(\mathbb{C}\) and \[ \alpha = \lim _{r \to \infty}\left( \sum_{n: | b_n| <r}(1/b_n-\overline{b_n}/r^2)-\sum_{n: | a_n| <r}(1/a_n-\overline{a_n}/r^2) \right). \] Besides that, given two sequences of complex numbers, sufficient conditions are provided for them to be zeros and poles of some function from \(\mathcal{AE}.\) For the first time explicit non-trivial examples of almost elliptic functions are constructed.