A question of Gol’dberg concerning entire functions with prescribed zeros

Let (z_j) be a sequence of complex numbers satisfying |z_j|→ ∞ asj → ∞ and denote by n(r) the number of z_j satisfying |z_j|≤ r. Suppose that lim inf_{r → ⇈} log n(r)/ logr > 0. Let ϕ be a positive, non-decreasing function satisfying ∫^∞ (ϕ(t)t logt)⁻¹ dt < ∞. It is proved that there exists an entire functionf whose zeros are the z_j such that log log M(r,f) = o((log n(r))²ϕ(log n(r))) asr → ∞ outside some exceptional set of finite logarithmic measure, and that the integral condition on ϕ is best possible here. These results answer a question by A. A. Gol’dberg.     

Rigidity of escaping dynamics for transcendental entire functions

We prove an analog of Böttcher’s theorem for transcendental entire functions in the Eremenko–Lyubich class $ \mathcal{B} $ . More precisely, let f and g be entire functions with bounded sets of singular values and suppose that f and g belong to the same parameter space (i.e., are quasiconformally equivalent in the sense of Eremenko and Lyubich). Then f and g are conjugate when restricted to the set of points that remain in some sufficiently small neighborhood of infinity under iteration. Furthermore, this conjugacy extends to a quasiconformal self-map of the plane. We also prove that the conjugacy is essentially unique. In particular, we show that a function $ f \in \mathcal{B} $ has no invariant line fields on its escaping set. Finally, we show that any two hyperbolic functions $ f,g \in \mathcal{B} $ that belong to the same parameter space are conjugate on their sets of escaping points.     

A question of Eremenko and Lyubich concerning completely invariant domains and indirect singularities

We give an example of an entire function with a completely invariant Fatou component which has an indirect singularity not contained in this Fatou component. The question of whether such a function exists has been raised by Eremenko and Lyubich.

     

On theorems of Gelfond and Selberg concerning integral-valued entire functions

For each sN define the constant θ_s with the following properties: if an entire function g(z) of type t(g)<θ_s satisfies then g is a polynomial; conversely, for any δ>0 there exists an entire transcendental function g(z) satisfying the display conditin and t(g)<θ_s+δ. The result θ₁=log2 is known due to Hardy and Pólya. We provide the upper bound θ_sπs/3 and improve earlier lower bounds due to Gelfond (1929) and Selberg (1941).     

On the London theorem concerning the Borel relation for entire functions

An estimate exact in a certain sense is obtained for the value of the exceptional set in the Borel relation for entire functions Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 1578–1580, November, 1998.     

On the Fatou components of two permutable transcendental entire functions

Let f and g be two distinct permutable transcendental entire functions. Suppose further that q(g)=aq(f)+b for some nonconstant polynomial q(z) and constants a(≠0), . In this article, we will investigate the dynamical properties of f and g and show that they have the same Fatou sets with the same components.     

On a question concerning sharp bases

A sharp base B is a base such that whenever (Bi)_i<ω is an injective sequence from B with x∈_?i<ωBi, then is a base at x. Alleche, Arhangel'ski? and Calbrix asked: if X has a sharp base, must X×[0,1] have a sharp base? Good, Knight and Mohamad claimed to construct an example of a Tychonoff space P with a sharp base such that P×[0,1] does not have a sharp base. However, the space was not regular. We show how to modify the construction to make P Tychonoff.     

On Bernstein type theorems concerning the growth of derivatives of entire functions

A subspace of which is invariant under all left translation operators is called admissible if is a Banach space satisfying the following properties:

(i) If then there exists a subsequence such that almost everywhere.

(ii) The group is a bounded strongly continuous group. In this case, let

Typical admissible spaces are and all spaces for More generally, all of the Peetre interpolation spaces of two admissible spaces are also admissible.

A function is called subexponential if for every With these definitions our main result goes as follows: . If is an entire function of exponential type such that its restriction to the real axis, denoted by , is subexponential and belongs to some admissible space then the derivative is also in Moreover,
for each real

This result yields as consequences and in a systematic way many new and old Bernstein type inequalities.

     

On a class of prime entire functions

In this note it is proved that entire functions of the form Fa（z）=H（z）-aα（z）
where H andα are entire functions, with α having at least one zero, H＇ and α＇having no common zeros and T（r, α） = S（r, H）, are prime in entire sense for most values of a. The class of these functions is seen to contain examples of both periodic and non-periodic prime entire functions found by Noda, Qiao, Urabe and by Singh and Charak. Another result due to Singh and Charak will be improved as well.     

On a non-standard class of entire functions

In this article we construct a class of entire functions of arbitrary finite order and with non-zero Taylor coefficients, which is not written in the form of Hadamard's canonical product. Some basic properties of this class are also given.     

On a question of Vaisman concerning complex surfaces

The last years have seen striking improvements on Vaisman’s question about existence of locally conformally Kähler (lcK) metrics on compact complex surfaces. The aim of this paper is twofold. We review results of different authors which, for all known examples of compact complex surfaces, give a complete answer to the Vaisman’s question. We also point out a relation between lcK surfaces and generalized Kähler geometry in four-dimension and prove a new result concerning hyperbolic Inoue surfaces. We conclude with a simple observation on a question of Brunella.     

On entire matrix-valued functions

Let A(z) be a given polynomial n×n matrix with det A(z)=1. It is shown that there exists an entire matrix-valued function X(z) such that expX(z)=A(z) if and only if the eigenvalues of A(z) are independent of z.     

Three counterexamples for a question concerning Green's functions and circular symmetrization

We construct domains in the plane such that if is the Green's function of with pole at zero, while is the symmetric non-increasing rearrangement of for each fixed and is the Green's function of the circular symmetrization , again with pole at zero, then there are positive numbers and such that

whenever . One of our constructions will have simply connected. We also consider the case where the poles of the Green's functions do not lie at the origin. Our work provides a negative answer to a question of Hayman (1967).

     

Composite entire functions with no unbounded Fatou components

Let L be the set of all entire functions f such that for given ?>0,

logL(r,f)>(1−?)logM(r,f)