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On a problem posed by Mahler

Number Theory 2016-05-11 v9

Abstract

E. Maillet proved that the set of Liouville numbers is preserved under rational functions with rational coefficients. Based on this result, a problem posed by Kurt Mahler is to investigate whether there exist entire transcendental functions with this property or not. For large parametrized classes of Liouville numbers, we construct such functions and moreover we show that it can be constructed such that all their derivatives share this property. We use a completely different approach than in a recent paper, where functions with a different invariant subclass of Liouville numbers were constructed (though with no information on derivatives). More generally, we study the image of Liouville numbers under analytic functions, with particular attention to f(z)=zqf(z)=z^{q} where qq is a rational number.

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@article{arxiv.1501.02731,
  title  = {On a problem posed by Mahler},
  author = {Diego Marques and Johannes Schleischitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02731},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

22 pages. D. Badziahin thankfully pointed out to us a small inaccuracy in a former version of the proof of Proposition 3.6, which is now corrected

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