Zeros of analytic functions, with or without multiplicities

Publication date 22 February 2012

Abstract: The classical Mason-Stothers theorem deals with nontrivial polynomial solutions to the equation

a + b = c

. It provides a lower bound on the number of distinct zeros of the polynomial

a b c

in terms of the degrees of

a

,

b

and

c

. We extend this to general analytic functions living on a reasonable bounded domain

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b C

, rather than on the whole of

m a t h b b C

. The estimates obtained are sharp, for any

O m e g a

, and a generalization of the original result on polynomials can be recovered from them by a limiting argument.

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