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On a Certain Series of Abel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

J. Clunie
Affiliation:
University College of North Staffordshire, Keele.
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If we express e, qua function of λ, in terms of λeλ by Langrange's theorem we find, for |λ| sufficiently small,

If we now regard λ as a parameter and z as the independent variable then (1.1) can be written

Supposing, therefore, that a function is of the form then

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1956

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