## Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences

### Entire functions sharing an entire function of smaller order with their shifts

#### Abstract

We study the growth of solutions of a certain difference equations, and study the uniqueness question of entire functions of finite orders sharing an entire function of smaller order with their shifts. The uniqueness results in this paper also extend and improve Theorem 1 [11].

#### Article information

Source
Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci., Volume 89, Number 2 (2013), 34-39.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 30 January 2013

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1359554919

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3792/pjaa.89.34

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3024273

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1317.30041

#### Citation

Li, Xiao-Min; Yang, Xiao; Yi, Hong-Xun. Entire functions sharing an entire function of smaller order with their shifts. Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 89 (2013), no. 2, 34--39. doi:10.3792/pjaa.89.34. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1359554919

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