The nonzero solutions to a class of linear differential equations

Publication date 23 January 2003

Published in Journal of Nanjing University. Mathematical Biquarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

entire solutions linear differential equations Nevanlinna theory

Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory (30D35) Entire and meromorphic solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M05)

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The author uses the Nevanlinna theory to study the value distribution of entire solutions and its derivatives to the linear equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINEw^{(k)}+A_{k-1}w^{(k-1)}+\cdots +A_1w^\prime+(A_0+A)w=0,\tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(A_j, j=0, \cdots, k-1\), and \(A\) are entire functions, and \(A\) is nonconstant and such that \(T(A_j, r)=o(T(r, A))\) for \(j=0, \cdots, k-1\). The main result proves that, for any nontrivial solution \(f\) to (1) and with \(n\in \mathbb{N}\), \(f\) satisfies NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(i) \(N(r, 1/f)=N(r, 1/f^{(n)})+S(r, f)\), NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(ii) \(\delta(0, f)=\delta(0, f^{(n)})\) when \(f\) has finite order, andNEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(iii) \(\delta(c, f)=\delta(c, f^{(n)})=0\) for any \(T(r, c)=S(r, A)\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe proof is based on standard results from the Nevanlinna theory. The author mentions that the main result of her paper generalizes an earlier result in a preprint of X. H. Hau and Y. Lin concerning second-order equations of (1), but the reviewer was unable to locate the paper. The main result should be compared with results due to \textit{S. Bank, G. Frank} and \textit{I. Laine} [Math. Z. 183, 355-364 (1983; Zbl 0506.34005)]. The main result is also closely related to the complex oscillation theory of \textit{I. Laine}[Nevanlinna theory and complex differential equations (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter) (1992; Zbl 0784.30002)] and \textit{S. Gao} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 43, No. 1, 1-13 (2000; Zbl 0956.34076)]. The use of notations for the coefficients in equations (5) and (8) is confusing. There are also a number of typing mistakes in the paper.

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