Permutable entire functions satisfying algebraic differential equations

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Abstract: It is shown that if two transcendental entire functions permute, and if one of them satisfies an algebraic differential equation, then so does the other one.


Let \(f\) and \(g\) be entire or rational functions. We say that \(f\) and \(g\) are permutable if \(f(g)= g(f)\). In this paper the following result is proved: If \(f\) and \(g\) are permutable transcendental entire functions and \(f\) satisfies an algebraic differential equation, then \(g\) also satisfies an algebraic differential equation. The main tools used in the paper are a result of Baker related to the growth of permutable entire functions and a result of Steinmetz concerning the factorization of solutions of certain functional and differential equations.











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