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ON A PROBLEM POSED BY MAHLER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2015
Abstract
Maillet proved that the set of Liouville numbers is preserved under rational functions with rational coefficients. Based on this result, a problem posed by Mahler is to investigate whether there exist entire transcendental functions with this property or not. For large parametrized classes of Liouville numbers, we construct such functions and moreover we show that they can be constructed such that all their derivatives share this property. We use a completely different approach than in a recent paper, where functions with a different invariant subclass of Liouville numbers were constructed (though with no information on derivatives). More generally, we study the image of Liouville numbers under analytic functions, with particular attention to $f(z)=z^{q}$, where $q$ is a rational number.
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- Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 86 - 107
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- © 2015 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
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