Transcendence tests for Mahler functions

DOI10.1090/PROC/13297MaRDI QIDQ3181316zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Coons, Jason P. Bell

Publication date 29 December 2016

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07530

zbMATH Keywords

Mahler functionsradial asymptoticstranscendence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91) Linear difference equations (39A06)

Abstract: We give two tests for transcendence of Mahler functions. For our first, we introduce the notion of the eigenvalue $lambd{a}_F$ of a Mahler function $F(z)$, and develop a quick test for the transcendence of $F(z)$ over $mathbbC(z)$, which is determined by the value of the eigenvalue $lambd{a}_F$. While our first test is quick and applicable for a large class of functions, our second test, while a bit slower than our first, is universal; it depends on the rank of a certain Hankel matrix determined by the initial coefficients of $F(z)$. We note that these are the first transcendence tests for Mahler functions of arbitrary degree. Several examples and applications are given.

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