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A CLUNIE LEMMA FOR DIFFERENCE AND q-DIFFERENCE POLYNOMIALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2009

ZHI-BO HUANG
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, PR China (email: [email protected])
ZONG-XUAN CHEN*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, PR China (email: [email protected])
*
For correspondence; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The main purpose of this paper is to prove difference and q-difference counterparts of the Clunie lemma from the Nevanlinna theory of differential polynomials, where the difference and q-difference polynomials can contain many terms of maximal total degree in f(z) and its ( q-)shifts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2009

Footnotes

The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10871076), and partly supported by the School of Mathematical Sciences Foundation of SCNU, PR China.

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