Uniqueness of Derivatives and Shifts of Meromorphic Functions

Abstract

Recently, some uniqueness theorems about meromorphic functions f(z) concerning their derivatives $$f'(z)$$ and shifts $$f(z+c)$$ with three CM sharing values have been obtained. In this paper, we continue to study this topic. We consider not only high order derivatives instead of just $$f'(z)$$ , but also IM sharing value instead of CM sharing value. In fact, we mainly prove that for a non-constant meromorphic function f(z) of hyper order strictly less than 1, if $$f^{(k)}(z)$$ and $$f(z+c)$$ share $$0,\infty $$ CM and 1 IM, then $$f^{(k)}(z)\equiv f(z+c)$$ , where c is a non-zero finite complex number. Our main theorem generalizes and greatly improves the related result due to Qi–Li–Yang. In addition, we give some discussion of this issue and obtain a uniqueness theorem concerning defective values in Sect. 3.