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 Title: Schanuel Functions and Algebraic Differential Equations Author(s): Reinhart, Georg Martin Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Rubel, Lee A. Department / Program: Mathematics Discipline: Mathematics Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree: Ph.D. Genre: Dissertation Subject(s): Mathematics Abstract: The Schanuel class consists of functions that can be obtained from $\doubc$, the variable z, and closed under addition, multiplication and exponentiation by the exponential function. A proof is presented that the minimum order of an algebraic differential equation (ADE) satisfied by a given Schanuel function depends on the number of algebraically independent functions (over $\doubc (z))$ needed to build up the function. This extends a result of A. Babakhanian on towers of exponentials.We also give an algorithm for determining the ADE of minimum order described above. This algorithm has been implemented on computers using Mathematica.Then formal power series satisfying ADEs are investigated. The main theorem is that the length of the gaps such a power series may have, can grow at most linearly with the position of the gap. The linearity constant is determined by the degree of the ADE the power series satisfies. The algorithm mentioned above also gives an estimate on the degree of the ADE of minimum order. Thus we obtain an estimate on the length of gaps the Taylor series of a Schanuel function can have.In the last chapter it is shown that if f(z) is a nonconstant entire solution of the functional equation $f(z + 1) = e\sp{f(z)},$ then f(z) cannot satisfy an ADE. This fact is also a consequence of a result of M. Boshernitzan and Lee A. Rubel, but the method is fundamentally different. Indeed, our method is combinatorial in nature and of interest in the field of partitions in its own right.Finally, some new applications are given. It will be shown that a nonconstant entire function of the form $f = e\sp{f\sb1}, f\sb1 = e\sp{f\sb2},\...$ cannot satisfy an ADE. Furthermore, we give a partial answer to a question posed by Lee A. Rubel: The iterates of a nonconstant entire function w of the form w = exp (exp (exp(z))) cannot satisfy one and the same ADE. Issue Date: 1993 Type: Text Description: 101 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72541 Other Identifier(s): (UMI)AAI9329143 Date Available in IDEALS: 2014-12-17 Date Deposited: 1993
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