Solvability of meromorphic equations in elementary functions
Abstract
An equation , where is a complex meromorphic function and is a parameter, is solvable in elementary functions if the inverse map can be expressed as a finite composition of arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), the exponential function, the complex logarithm, and constants. Specific functions such as , , have been proven to be unsolvable by Kanel-Belov, Malistov, Zaytsev, while almost all entire surjective functions of at most exponential growth have been covered by Zelenko. All these rely on one-dimensional topological Galois theory, developed by Khovanskii. We generalize to provide a proof for the unsolvability of all elementary meromorphic functions such that the derivative of has infinitely many roots and the set of distinct values is infinite.
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@article{arxiv.2602.09253,
title = {Solvability of meromorphic equations in elementary functions},
author = {Miroslav Marinov and Nikola Veselinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09253},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages