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A transcendence measure for E-functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Serge Lang
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
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Siegel defined an E-function to be a function which admits a power series expansion

with complex coefficients βn, belonging to some algebraic number field K (of finite degree over the rationals Q), satisfying the following conditions:

(i) Given ε > 0, the maximum of the absolute values of the conjugates of βn, satisfies

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1962

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