A Heuristic Principle in Complex Function Theory
A Heuristic Principle in Complex Function Theory
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DOI:
10.1080/00029890.1975.11993942
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发表时间:
1975-10
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0.5
通讯作者:
L. Zalcman
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作者:
L. Zalcman
1. Introduction. A well-known heuristic principle in the theory of functions asserts that" a family of holomorphic (meromorphic) functions which have a property Pin common in a domain D is (apt to be) a normal family in D if P cannot be possessed by non-constant entire (meromorphic) functions in the finite plane"[4, p. 250]. In his recent retiring presidential address to the Association for Symbolic Logic [7](required reading for anyone whose interests extend across professional boundaries to mathematics as an intellectual discipline), the late Professor Abraham Robinson cited the explication of this principle as one of twelve problems worthy of the attention of logicians (and, by extension, of mathematicians in general).This paper is devoted to such an explication. To be precise, we prove a simple theorem which makes the principle rigorous and from which the standard applications of the principle follow quite routinely. Some of these applications are noted at the end, together with a slightly novel approach to the proof of Picard's big theorem.