The Bloch–Nevanlinna Problem Under Lineability

Abstract

The original version of the celebrated Bloch–Nevanlinna problem asked whether there exists or not a holomorphic function in the unit disc of bounded characteristic whose derivative is not of bounded characteristic. This problem has been solved in the affirmative by a number of mathematicians. Starting from a result on topological genericity of this class of functions due to Hahn, our work intends—under an algebraic as well as a topological point of view—to contribute to this topic. Specifically, the family of solutions of the Bloch–Nevanlinna problem is proved to be residual in appropriate topological spaces, and it contains, except for the zero function, dense maximal dimensional vector subspaces, large linear algebras and infinite-dimensional Banach spaces.