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A Further Note on a Result of Bank, Frank, and Laine

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In this paper, we generalize a result of Bank, Frank, and Laine [2] and a result of Wang [8]. Under certain conditions on the coefficients Pj in equation (1.1), we show that solutions ƒ of (1.1) must satisfy λ(ƒ) = ρ(ƒ) or ƒ has only finitely many zeros.

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Steinbart, E.M. A Further Note on a Result of Bank, Frank, and Laine. Results. Math. 42, 365–383 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322862

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