We prove a result on the frequency of zeros of f ◦ g −Q, where g is a transcendental entire function of finite lower order, and f and Q are meromorphic functions in the plane such that f has finite order and the growth of the target function Q is controlled by that of g. The particular case f = Q is then investigated further.

for some α (0≤α< 1). We say that f(z) is in the class ∑C(α) of such functions. The class ∑∗(α) and various other subclasses of ∑ have been studied rather extensively by Nehari and Netanyahu [9], Clunie [4], Pommerenke [11, 12], Miller [7], Royster [13], and others (cf., e.g., Bajpai [2], Goel and Sohi [6], Mogra et al. [8], Uralegaddi and Ganigi [15], Cho et al. [3], Aouf [1], and Uralegaddi an...

A rigid meromorphic cocycle is a class in the first cohomology of the discrete group Γ := SL2(Z[1/p]) with values in the multiplicative group of non-zero rigid meromorphic functions on the p-adic upper half planeHp := P1(Cp)−P1(Qp). Such a class can be evaluated at the real quadratic irrationalities in Hp, which are referred to as “RM points”. The RM values of arbitrary rigid meromorphic cocycl...