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The Algebraic Independence of Certain Exponential Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. Dale Brownawell*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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In 1897 E. Borel proved a general theorem which implied as a special case the following result equivalent to his celebrated generalization of Picard's theorem [2]: If f1,fm are entire functions such that for each, C then the functions exp f1, … , exp f/m are linearly independent over C. In 1929 R. Nevanlinna [6] extended Borel's theorem to consider arbitrary C-linearly independent meromorphic functions < ϕi, … , < ϕm satisfying < ϕ1 + … + ϕm = 1.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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