Value sharing results for shifts of meromorphic functions

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the value distribution of difference products of entire functions, and present some result on two difference products of entire functions sharing one value with the same multiplicities. The research findings also include an analogue for shift of a well-known conjecture by Brück. Our theorems improve the results of I. Laine and C.C. Yang [I. Laine, C.C. Yang, Value distribution of difference polynomials, Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 83 (2007) 148–151], K. Liu and L.Z. Yang [K. Liu, L.Z. Yang, Value distribution of the difference operator, Arch. Math. 92 (2009) 270–278], and J. Heittokangas et al. [J. Heittokangas, R. Korhonen, I. Laine, J. Rieppo, J.L. Zhang, Value sharing results for shifts of meromorphic function, and sufficient conditions for periodicity, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 355 (2009) 352–363]. Moreover, we show by illustrating a number of examples that our results are best possible in certain senses.