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ZEROS AND FIXED POINTS OF DIFFERENCE OPERATORS OF MEROMORPHIC FUNCTIONS

  • CUI Wei-Wei ,
  • YANG Lian-Zhong
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  • School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

Received date: 2011-01-04

  Online published: 2013-05-20

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The second author was supported by the NSF of Shandong Province, China (ZR2010AM030) and the NNSF of China (11171013 & 11041005).

Abstract

Let f be a transcendental meromorphic function and Δf(z) = f(z + 1) − f(z). A number of results are proved concerning the existences of zeros and fixed points of Δf(z) and Δf(z)/f(z) when f(z) is of order σ(f)=1. Examples show that some of the results are sharp.

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CUI Wei-Wei , YANG Lian-Zhong . ZEROS AND FIXED POINTS OF DIFFERENCE OPERATORS OF MEROMORPHIC FUNCTIONS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2013 , 33(3) : 773 -780 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(13)60037-5

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