Uniqueness of Meromorphic Functions and a Question of Gross

  • Yi, Hong-Xun (Department of Mathematics, Shandong University) ;
  • Lin, Wei-Chuan (Department of Mathematics, Fujian Teachers University)
  • Received : 2005.06.07
  • Published : 2006.09.23

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the uniqueness of meromorphic functions concerning one question of Gross (see [5, Question 6]), and obtain some results that are improvements of that of former authors. Moreover, the example shows that the result is sharp.

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