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Extension of Some Theorems of W. Schwarz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael Coons
Michael Coons*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 e-mail: mcoons@math.uwaterloo.ca
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Abstract

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In this paper, we prove that a non–zero power series $F(z\text{)}\in \mathbb{C}\text{ }[[z]]$ satisfying

$$F({{z}^{d}})\,=\,F(z)\,+\,\frac{A(z)}{B(z)},$$

where $d\,\ge \,2,\,A(z),\,B(z)\,\in \,\mathbb{C}[z]$, with $A(z)\,\ne \,0$ and $\deg \,A(z),\,\deg \,B(z)\,<\,d$ is transcendental over $\mathbb{C}(z)$. Using this result and a theorem of Mahler’s, we extend results of Golomb and Schwarz on transcendental values of certain power series. In particular, we prove that for all $k\,\ge \,2$ the series ${{G}_{k}}(z):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=0}^{\infty }{{z}^{{{k}^{n}}}}{{(1-{{z}^{{{k}^{n}}}})}^{-1}}$ is transcendental for all algebraic numbers $z$ with $\left| z \right|\,<\,1$. We give a similar result for ${{F}_{k}}(z):=\mathop{\sum }_{n=0}^{\infty }{{z}^{{{k}^{n}}}}{{(1+{{z}^{{{k}^{n}}}})}^{-1}}$. These results were known to Mahler, though our proofs of the function transcendence are new and elementary; no linear algebra or differential calculus is used.

Keywords

11B3711J81functional equationstranscendencepower series
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2012 , pp. 60 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2012

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