Related papers: Bank-Laine functions with real zeros

The Bank-Laine conjecture concerning the oscillation of solutions of second order homogeneous linear differential equations has recently been disproved by Bergweiler and Eremenko. It is shown here, however, that the conjecture is true if…

A Bank--Laine function $E$ is written as $E=f_1f_2$ for two normalized solutions $f_1$ and $f_2$ of the second order differential equation $f''+Af=0$, where $A$ is an entire function. In this paper, we first complete the construction of…

It is known that a Bank-Laine function $E$ is a product of two normalized solutions of the second order differential equation $f"+Af=0$ $(\dagger)$, where $A=A(z)$ is an entire function. By using Bergweiler and Eremenko's method of…

We resolve a question of Bank and Laine on the zeros of solutions of $w'' + Aw = 0$ where $A$ is an entire function of finite order.

The paper determines all meromorphic functions with finitely many zeros in the plane having the property that a linear differential polynomial in the function, of order at least 3 and with rational functions as coefficients, also has…

We consider transcendental entire functions of finite order for which the zeros and $1$-points are in disjoint sectors. Under suitable hypotheses on the sizes of these sectors we show that such functions must have a specific form, or that…

The main result of the paper determines all real meromorphic functions of finite order in the plane for which the first derivative has finitely many zeros, while the function itself and one of its higher derivatives have finitely many…

We describe a new method of constructing transcendental entire functions $A$ such that the differential equation $w"+Aw=0$ has two linearly independent solutions with relatively few zeros. In particular, we solve a problem of Bank and Laine…

We show that certain sums of products of Hermite-Biehler entire functions have only real zeros, extending results of Cardon. As applications of this theorem we construct sums of exponential functions having only real zeros, we construct…

A class theorem is presented and proved: the complex Fourier transforms of a certain class of exponential functions have all their zeros on the real line. A class of basis functions is first considered, and the class is then extended via…

We obtain sufficient conditions for an exponential type entire function not to have zeros in the open lower half-plane. An exact inequality containing the real and imaginary parts of such functions and their derivatives restricted to the…

In this work we establish some polynomials and entire functions have only real zeros. These polynomials generalize q-Laguerre polynomials $L_{n}^{(\alpha)}(x;q)$, while the entire functions are generalizations of Ramanujan's entire function…

The r-th order nonlinearity of a Boolean function is the minimum number of elements that have to be changed in its truth table to arrive at a Boolean function of degree at most r. It is shown that the (suitably normalised) r-th order…

Lower bounds are given for the number of non-real zeros of a second order linear differential polynomial with constant coefficients in a real entire function with finitely many non-real zeros.

It is shown that if $f$ or $1/f$ is a real entire function of infinite order of growth, with only real zeros, then $f''+\omega f$ has infinitely many non-real zeros for any $\omega > 0$.

A result is proved concerning meromorphic functions of finite order in the plane such that all but finitely many zeros of the second derivative are zeros of the first derivative.

We consider the Mellin transforms of certain Legendre functions based upon the ordinary and associated Legendre polynomials. We show that the transforms have polynomial factors whose zeros lie all on the critical line Re $s=1/2$. The…

The existence of non trivial zeros off the critical line for a function obtained by analytic continuation of a particular Dirichlet series is studied. Contrary to what has been presumed for a long time, we prove that such zeros cannot…

A number of results are proved concerning the existence of non-real zeros of derivatives of strictly non-real meromorphic functions in the plane.

A class of complex Fourier Transforms of exponential functions which have all their zeros on the real line is explored from a geometric perspective. These transforms belong to the Laguerre - Polya class, and it is proved that all the zeros…