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Growth and oscillation of differential polynomials in the unit disc. (English) Zbl 1213.34112
The authors consider the linear differential equation
$f''+ A_1(z) f'+ A_0(z) f= F,\tag{1}$
where $$A_1(z)$$, $$A_0(z)\not\equiv 0$$, $$F$$ are analytic functions in the unit disk $$D= \{z:|z|< 1|$$. It is well-known that all solutions of equation (1) are analytic functions in $$D$$ and that there are exactly two linearly independent solutions of (1).
Let $$\lambda(f)$$ $$(\lambda_2(f))$$ denote the exponent (hyper-exponent) of convergence of a sequence of zeros of the function $$f$$; let $$\overline\lambda(f)$$ $$(\overline\lambda_2(f))$$ be the exponent (hyper-exponent) of convergence of a sequence of distinct zeros of $$f$$, and use the notation $$\rho_2(f)$$ to denote the hyper-order of $$f$$. Recall that the order of an analytic function $$f$$ in $$D$$ is defined by
$\rho_M(f):= \limsup_{r\to 1-}{\log^+\log^+ M(r,f)\over -\log(1- r)}.$
The authors give sufficient conditions for the solutions $$f$$ of (1) and the differential polynomials generated by (1) to have the same properties of growth and oscillation. The authors present an application of the above results.
Corollary. Let $$A_1$$, $$A_0$$, $$d_0$$, $$d_1$$, $$d_2$$ be analytic functions in the unit disk $$D$$ such that
$\max\{\rho(A_1),\rho(d_j)\quad j= 0,1,2\}< \rho(A_0)= \rho\quad (0< \rho<\infty),$
$$\tau(A_0)= \tau$$, $$(0<\tau< \infty)$$, and let $$\varphi\neq 0$$ be an analytic function in $$D$$ with $$\rho(\varphi)<\infty$$. If $$f\neq 0$$ is a solution of the equation
$f''+ A_1(z) f'+ A_0(z) f= 0,$
then the differential polynomial $$g_f= d_2f''+ d_1 f'+ d_0 f$$ satisfies
$\overline\lambda(g_f- \varphi)= \lambda(g_f- \varphi)= \rho(g_f)= \rho(f)= \infty,$
$\alpha_M\geq\overline\lambda_2(g_f- \varphi)= \lambda_2(g_f- \varphi)= \rho_2(g_f)= \rho_2(f)\geq \rho(A_0),$
where $$\alpha_M= \max\{\rho_M(A_j): j= 0,1\}$$.

##### MSC:
 34M10 Oscillation, growth of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain 34M03 Linear ordinary differential equations and systems in the complex domain 30D35 Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory
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