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A NOTE ON VALUE DISTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENCE POLYNOMIALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2010

K. LIU*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330031, PR China
I. LAINE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Joensuu, PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland (email: [email protected])
*
For correspondence; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper, we investigate the value distribution of difference polynomials and prove some difference analogues of results of Hayman and the Brück conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2010

Footnotes

The second author has been partially supported by the Academy of Finland grant 124954.

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