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Entire solutions of linear differential equations and bounds for growth and index numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

S. M. Shah
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A.

Synopsis

In this paper entire solutions of differential equations with polynomial coefficients are considered and bounds on the maximum modulus and the index are obtained, when the equation is of second order and the coefficients are of second degree.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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