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This paper is concerned with an extremal problem for meromorphic functions. The necessary and sufficient conditions for a meromorphic function and all its derivatives with maximum defect two are obtained and the behavior of such functions is investigated in detail.
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Yaofei, W. Total Defect of a Meromorphic Function and All its Derivatives (II). Results. Math. 24, 190–199 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322329
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322329