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On the Periodicity of Compositions of Entire Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Fred Gross
Fred Gross*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, B.C.
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For two entire functions f(z) and g(z) the composition f(g(z)) may or may not be periodic even though g(z) is not periodic. For example, when f(u) = cos √u and g(z) = z2, or f(u) = eu and g(z) = p(z) + z, where p(z) is a periodic function of period 2πi, f(g(z)) will be periodic. On the other hand, for any polynomial Q(u) and any non-periodic entire function f(z) the composition Q(f(z)) is never periodic (2).

The general problem of finding necessary and sufficient conditions for f(g(z)) to be periodic is a difficult one and we have not succeeded in solving it. However, we have found some interesting related results, which we present in this paper.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 18 , 1966 , pp. 724 - 730
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

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