Transcendental transcendence of solutions of Schröder's equation associated with finite Blaschke products
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Transcendental transcendence of solutions of Schröder's equation associated with finite Blaschke products
zbMATH Open document ID: 0574.30028
published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Let S be a finite Blaschke product with \(S(0)=0\) and \(S'(0)=s\), \(0<| s| <1\). Consider the three functional equations: \[ (S)\quad \phi (S(z))=s\phi (z),\quad | z| <1. \] \[ (E)\quad \Psi (S(z))=s^{\ell}(S'(z))^ m\Psi (z),\quad \ell,m\quad integers\quad not\quad both\quad 0 \] \[ (F)\quad \Psi (S(z))(S'(z))^ 2=\Psi (z)S'(z)+\lambda S''(z)\quad (\lambda \neq 0). \] The main result of the paper is that if \(\phi\) \(\not\equiv 0\) is meromorphic in the unit disk and satisfies (Schröder's) equation (S), then \(\phi\) satisfies no algebraic differential equation (ADE). An analysis modelled on \textit{A. Ostrowski}'s classical work on the gamma function [Math. Ann. 79, 286-288 (1919)] shows that if \(\phi\) did satisfy an ADE, then one of the equations (E) and (F) would have a (nontrivial) rational solution \(\Psi\). Essential use is made of the fact that S is a finite monic Blaschke product of degree at least 2 to show that no rational function \(\Psi\) satisfies (F), and that the only rational solution of (E) is the trivial one.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 39B05
zbMATH DE Number: 3916667
zbMATH Keywords: Schröder's functional equation
zbMATH Keywords: Blaschke product
zbMATH Keywords: algebraic differential equation
zbMATH Keywords: gamma function
author: Francis W. Carroll
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1029003131
OpenAlex ID: W2091474746
DOI: 10.1307/MMJ/1029003131
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