On transcendental entire functions with infinitely many derivatives taking integer values at two points

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Authors Michel Waldschmidt

Publication date 17 December 2021

Published in Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00173

zbMATH Keywords

exponential typeHurwitz functionsinteger valued entire functionsLidstone polynomialsPolya's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special classes of entire functions of one complex variable and growth estimates (30D15)

Abstract: Given a subset $S=s_0,s_1$ of the complex plane with two points and an infinite subset $mathscrS$ of $SimesmathbbN$, where $mathbbN=0,1,2,dots$ is the set of nonnegative integers, we ask for a lower bound for the order of growth of a transcendental entire function $f$ such that $f^{(n)}(s)inmathbbZ$ for all $(s,n)inmathscrS$. We first take $mathscrS=s_0,s_{1}imes2mathbbN$, where $2mathbbN=0,2,4,dots$ is the set of nonnegative even integers. We prove that an entire function $f$ of sufficiently small exponential type such that $f^{(2n)}(s_0)inmathbbZ$ and $f^{(2n)}(s_1)inmathbbZ$ for all sufficiently large $n$ must be a polynomial. The estimate we reach is optimal, as we show by constructing a noncountable set of examples. The main tool, both for the proof of the estimate and for the construction of examples, is Lidstone polynomials. Our second example is $(s_{0}imes(2mathbbN+1))cup(s_{1}imes2mathbbN)$ (odd derivatives at $s_0$ and even derivatives at $s_1$). We use analogs of Lidstone polynomials which have been introduced by J.M.~Whittaker and studied by I.J.~Schoenberg. Finally, using results of W.~Gontcharoff, A. J.~Macintyre and J.M.~Whittaker, we prove lower bounds for the exponential type of a transcendental entire function $f$ such that, for each sufficiently large $n$, one at least of the two numbers $f^{(n)}(s_0)$, $f^{(n)}(s_1)$ is in $mathbbZ$.

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