I. Integral functions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In two classical papers (1, 2) J. M. Whittaker introduced the study of integral functions bounded at the lattice points m + in(m, n = 0, ± 1, …,). He succeeded in showing (cf. also G. Polya(3)) that an integral function of at most the minimum type of order 2 uniformly bounded at the lattice points was necessarily constant. This result was improved almost simultaneously by A. Pflüger(5) and V. Ganapathy Iyer(11), who showed that the result was true also for functions of type K<½12π of order 2. The example of Weierstrass's σ(z) function shows that theirs is a best possible result in this direction.