Effective finiteness of solutions to certain differential and difference equations

DOI10.4153/S0008439521000072MaRDI QIDQ5065909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Patrick Ingram

Publication date 23 March 2022

Published in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02968

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic geometrydifference equationsdifferential equationsrational functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heights (11G50) Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05) Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory (30D35) Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C11) Entire and meromorphic solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M05) Growth, boundedness, comparison of solutions to difference equations (39A22) Difference equations in the complex domain (39A45)

Abstract: For R(z, w) rational with complex coefficients, of degree at least 2 in w, we show that the number of rational functions f(z) solving the difference equation f(z+1)=R(z, f(z)) is finite and bounded just in terms of the degrees of R in the two variables. This complements a result of Yanagihara, who showed that any finite-order meromorphic solution to this sort of difference equation must be a rational function. We prove a similar result for the differential equation f'(z)=R(z, f(z)), building on a result of Eremenko.

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