On transcendental entire functions with infinitely many derivatives taking integer values at several points
Abstract
Let be complex numbers and rational integers in the range . Our first goal is to prove that if an entire function of sufficiently small exponential type satisfies for and all sufficiently large , then is a polynomial. Under suitable assumptions on and , we introduce interpolation polynomials , (, ) satisfying and we show that any entire function of sufficiently small exponential type has a convergent expansion The case for involves successive derivatives of evaluated at points of a periodic sequence of complex numbers, where (, ). More generally, given a bounded (not necessarily periodic) sequence of complex numbers, we consider similar interpolation formulae involving polynomials which were introduced by W.~Gontcharoff in 1930. Under suitable assumptions, we show that the hypothesis for all sufficiently large implies that is a polynomial.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.00174,
title = {On transcendental entire functions with infinitely many derivatives taking integer values at several points},
author = {Michel Waldschmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00174},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
21 pages. To appear in the Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory. The first version was substantially improved thanks to a contribution by Damien Roy