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THE TUMURA–CLUNIE THEOREM IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

PEI-CHU HU*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Shandong, PR China email pchu@sdu.edu.cn
CHUNG-CHUN YANG
Affiliation:
College of Science, China University of Petroleum (Huadong), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, PR China email wood.yang@family.ust.hk
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It is a well-known result that if a nonconstant meromorphic function $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}f$ on $\mathbb{C}$ and its $l$th derivative $f^{(l)}$ have no zeros for some $l\geq 2$, then $f$ is of the form $f(z)=\exp (Az+B)$ or $f(z)=(Az+B)^{-n}$ for some constants $A$, $B$. We extend this result to meromorphic functions of several variables, by first extending the classic Tumura–Clunie theorem for meromorphic functions of one complex variable to that of meromorphic functions of several complex variables using Nevanlinna theory.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © 2014 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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