Given a sequence $\varrho =(r_n)_n\in [0,1)$ tending to $1$, we consider the set ${\mathcal {U}}_A({\mathbb {D}},\varrho )$ of Abel universal functions consisting of holomorphic functions f in the open unit disk $\mathbb {D}$ such that for any compact set K included in the unit circle ${\mathbb {T}}$, different from ${\mathbb {T}}$, the set $\{z\mapsto f(r_n \cdot )\vert _K:n\in \mathbb {N}\}$ is dense in the space ${\mathcal {C}}(K)$ of continuous functions on K. It is known that the set ${\mathcal {U}}_A({\mathbb {D}},\varrho )$ is residual in $H(\mathbb {D})$. We prove that it does not coincide with any other classical sets of universal holomorphic functions. In particular, it is not even comparable in terms of inclusion to the set of holomorphic functions whose Taylor polynomials at $0$ are dense in ${\mathcal {C}}(K)$ for any compact set $K\subset {\mathbb {T}}$ different from ${\mathbb {T}}$. Moreover, we prove that the class of Abel universal functions is not invariant under the action of the differentiation operator. Finally, an Abel universal function can be viewed as a universal vector of the sequence of dilation operators $T_n:f\mapsto f(r_n \cdot )$ acting on $H(\mathbb {D})$. Thus, we study the dynamical properties of $(T_n)_n$ such as the multiuniversality and the (common) frequent universality. All the proofs are constructive.

We prove that the classical universal Taylor series in the complex plane are never frequently universal. On the other hand, we prove the 1-upper frequent universality of all these universal Taylor series.

In this article, we have introduced a Taylor collocation method, which is based on collocation method for solving fractional Riccati differential equation. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. This method is based on first taking the truncated Taylor expansions of the solution function in the fractional Riccati differential equation and then substituting their matrix forms into the equation. Using collocation points, the systems of nonlinear algebraic equation is derived. We further solve the system of nonlinear algebraic equation using Maple 13 and thus obtain the coefficients of the generalized Taylor expansion. Illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

The Riemann zeta-function is employed to generate universally overconvergent power series.

We introduce the notion of upper and lower frequently universal sequences and see that ‘most’ of the universal approximations are obtained by sets of indices which have upper density 1 and lower density 0. We also show that a class of universal series related to lower density is of first category.