Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
1. Let
be an entire function of two complex variables z 1 and z 2, holomorphic in the closed polydisk . Let
Following S. K. Bose (1, pp. 214-215), μ(r 1, r 2; ƒ ) denotes the maximum term in the double series (1.1) for given values of r 1 and r 2 and v 1{m2; r 1, r 2) or v 1(r 1, r 2), r 2 fixed, v 2(m 1, r 1, r 2) or v 2(r 1, r 2), r 1 fixed and v(r 1r 2) denote the ranks of the maximum term of the double series (1.1).
This research has been supported by a Junior Research Fellowship, an award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India. The author is grateful to the referee for his helpful suggestions.