The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist. The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level. The series de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded ca. 30 years ago by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel with the aim to establish a series of monographs and textbooks of high standard, written by scholars with an international reputation presenting current fields of research in pure and applied mathematics. While the editorial board of the Studies has changed with the years, the aspirations of the Studies are unchanged. In times of rapid growth of mathematical knowledge carefully written monographs and textbooks written by experts are needed more than ever, not least to pave the way for the next generation of mathematicians. In this sense the editorial board and the publisher of the Studies are devoted to continue the Studies as a service to the mathematical community. Please submit any book proposals to Niels Jacob.
This book offers a modern introduction to Nevanlinna theory and its intricate relation to the theory of normal families, algebraic functions, asymptotic series, and algebraic differential equations. Following a comprehensive treatment of Nevanlinna’s theory of value distribution, the author presents advances made since Hayman’s work on the value distribution of differential polynomials and illustrates how value- and pair-sharing problems are linked to algebraic curves and Briot–Bouquet differential equations. In addition to discussing classical applications of Nevanlinna theory, the book outlines state-of-the-art research, such as the effect of the Yosida and Zalcman–Pang method of re-scaling to algebraic differential equations, and presents the Painlevé–Yosida theorem, which relates Painlevé transcendents and solutions to selected 2D Hamiltonian systems to certain Yosida classes of meromorphic functions. Aimed at graduate students interested in recent developments in the field and researchers working on related problems, Nevanlinna Theory, Normal Families, and Algebraic Differential Equations will also be of interest to complex analysts looking for an introduction to various topics in the subject area. With examples, exercises and proofs seamlessly intertwined with the body of the text, this book is particularly suitable for the more advanced reader.
The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist. The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level. The series de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded ca. 35 years ago by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel with the aim to establish a series of monographs and textbooks of high standard, written by scholars with an international reputation presenting current fields of research in pure and applied mathematics. While the editorial board of the Studies has changed with the years, the aspirations of the Studies are unchanged. In times of rapid growth of mathematical knowledge carefully written monographs and textbooks written by experts are needed more than ever, not least to pave the way for the next generation of mathematicians. In this sense the editorial board and the publisher of the Studies are devoted to continue the Studies as a service to the mathematical community. Please submit any book proposals to Niels Jacob.
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Painlevé differential equations in the complex plane. Starting with a rigorous presentation for the meromorphic nature of their solutions, the Nevanlinna theory will be applied to offer a detailed exposition of growth aspects and value distribution of Painlevé transcendents. The subsequent main part of the book is devoted to topics of classical background such as representations and expansions of solutions, solutions of special type like rational and special transcendental solutions, Bäcklund transformations and higher order analogues, treated separately for each of these six equations. The final chapter offers a short overview of applications of Painlevé equations, including an introduction to their discrete counterparts. Due to the present important role of Painlevé equations in physical applications, this monograph should be of interest to researchers in both mathematics and physics and to graduate students interested in mathematical physics and the theory of differential equations.
The Nevanlinna theory of value distribution of meromorphic functions, one of the milestones of complex analysis during the last century, was c- ated to extend the classical results concerning the distribution of of entire functions to the more general setting of meromorphic functions. Later on, a similar reasoning has been applied to algebroid functions, subharmonic functions and meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces as well as to - alytic functions of several complex variables, holomorphic and meromorphic mappings and to the theory of minimal surfaces. Moreover, several appli- tions of the theory have been exploited, including complex differential and functional equations, complex dynamics and Diophantine equations. The main emphasis of this collection is to direct attention to a number of recently developed novel ideas and generalizations that relate to the - velopment of value distribution theory and its applications. In particular, we mean a recent theory that replaces the conventional consideration of counting within a disc by an analysis of their geometric locations. Another such example is presented by the generalizations of the second main theorem to higher dimensional cases by using the jet theory. Moreover, s- ilar ideas apparently may be applied to several related areas as well, such as to partial differential equations and to differential geometry. Indeed, most of these applications go back to the problem of analyzing zeros of certain complex or real functions, meaning in fact to investigate level sets or level surfaces.
This book describes the theories and developments in Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation. Although these two subjects belong to the different areas: one in complex analysis and one in number theory, it has been discovered that a number of striking similarities exist between these two subjects. A growing understanding of these connections has led to significant advances in both fields. Outstanding conjectures from decades ago are being solved.Over the past 20 years since the first edition appeared, there have been many new and significant developments. The new edition greatly expands the materials. In addition, three new chapters were added. In particular, the theory of algebraic curves, as well as the algebraic hyperbolicity, which provided the motivation for the Nevanlinna theory.
This dissertation, "Meromorphic Solutions of Complex Differential Equations" by Chengfa, Wu, 吳成發, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The objective of this thesis is to study meromorphic solutions of complex algebraic ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The thesis consists of two main themes. One of them is to find explicitly all meromorphic solutions of certain class of complex algebraic ODEs. Since constructing explicit solutions of complex ODEs in general is very difficult, the other theme (motivated by the classical conjecture proposed by Hayman in 1996) is to establish estimations on the growth of meromorphic solutions in terms of Nevanlinna characteristic function. The tools from complex analysis that will be used have been collected in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is devoted to introducing a method, which was first used by Eremenko and later refined by Conte and Ng, to give a classification of some complex algebraic autonomous ODEs. Under certain assumptions, based on local singularity analysis and Nevanlinna theory, this method shows that all meromorphic solutions of these ODEs if exist, must belong to 'class W', which consists of elliptic functions and their degenerations. Combined with knowledge from function theory, as shown by Demina and Kudryashov, it further allows us to find all of them explicitly and the details of the method will be illustrated by constructing new real meromorphic solutions of the stationary case of cubic-quintic Swift-Hohenberg equation. In Chapter 3, the same method is used to construct on R DEGREESn, n >= 2 some explicit Bryant solitons and on R DEGREESn\{0}, n >= 2 some Ricci solitons, and one of them turns out to be a new Ricci soliton on R DEGREES5\{0}. In addition, the completeness of corresponding metrics on the Ricci solitons that we have constructed are also discussed. In 1996, Hayman conjectured an upper bound on the growth, in terms of Nevanlinna characteristic function, of meromorphic solutions of complex algebraic ODEs. Related work in the literature towards this so-called classical conjecture is first reviewed in Chapter 4. The classical conjecture for three types of second order complex algebraic ODEs will then be verified by either giving a classification of the meromorphic solutions or obtaining them explicitly in Chapter 4. As the classical conjecture seems to be out of reach at present, we proposed in Chapter 5 to study a particular class of complex algebraic ODEs which can be factorized into certain form. On one hand, for these factorizable ODEs, it has been proven for the generic case that all their meromorphic solutions must be elliptic functions or their degenerations. On the other hand, the second order factorizable ODEs have been carefully studied so that their meromorphic solutions have been obtained explicitly except one case. This will allow the classical conjecture for most of the second order factorizable ODEs to be verified by employing Nevanlinna theory and certain qualitative results from complex differential equations. Finally, the classical conjecture has been shown to be sharp in certain cases. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5317034 Subjects: Differential equations
Graduate-level text offers full treatments of existence theorems, representation of solutions by series, theory of majorants, dominants and minorants, questions of growth, much more. Includes 675 exercises. Bibliography.
