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Unavoidable systems of functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. K. Hayman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, U.K.
Lee A. Rubel
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.

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Suppose that D is a plane domain and that f(z), g(z) are meromorphic in D and f(z) ╪ g(z) for all z in D. Then following Rubel and Yang [11], we say that f(z) avoids g(z) in D. A system of functions g1(z), …, gn(z) is said to be unavoidable if, whenever f is meromorphic in D, at least one of the equations f(z) = gv(z) has a root in D. Rubel and Yang [11] proved that if D is the open plane, then any two functions form an avoidable system, but three distinct polynomials a1, a2, a3 such that a1a2 and a2a3 are not both constant form an unavoidable system.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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