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A Class of Meromorphic Functions with Yang’s Conjecture Concerning Periodicity

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In this paper, we first discuss a class of meromorphic functions satisfying a certain property on characteristic functions of Nevanlinna theory and then give the applications of the class to Yang’s conjecture and its variants.

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Liu, X. A Class of Meromorphic Functions with Yang’s Conjecture Concerning Periodicity. Mediterr. J. Math. 21, 82 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-024-02627-y

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