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On the hypertranscendence of meromorphic solutions of certain functional equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Steven B. Bank
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.

Synopsis

This paper deals mainly with showing that meromorphic solutions of Poincaré functional equations cannot satisfy algebraic differential equations. Results of this type for entire solutions have previously been obtained by H. Wittich.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1979

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