We obtain Wiman–Valiron type inequalities for random entire functions and for random analytic functions on the unit disk that improve a classical result of Erdős and Rényi and recent results of Kuryliak and Skaskiv. Our results are then applied to linear dynamics: we obtain rates of growth, outside some exceptional set, for analytic functions that are frequently hypercyclic for an arbitrary chaotic weighted backward shift.

Erdős [7] proved that the Continuum Hypothesis (CH) is equivalent to the existence of an uncountable family $\mathcal {F}$ of (real or complex) analytic functions, such that $\big \{ f(x) \ : \ f \in \mathcal {F} \big \}$ is countable for every x. We strengthen Erdős’ result by proving that CH is equivalent to the existence of what we call sparse analytic systems of functions. We use such systems to construct, assuming CH, an equivalence relation $\sim $ on $\mathbb {R}$ such that any ‘analytic-anonymous’ attempt to predict the map $x \mapsto [x]_\sim $ must fail almost everywhere. This provides a consistently negative answer to a question of Bajpai-Velleman [2].

We characterize zero sets for which every subset remains a zero set too in the Fock space $\mathcal {F}^p$, $1\leq p<\infty $. We are also interested in the study of a stability problem for some examples of uniqueness set with zero excess in Fock spaces.

We prove several results on unavoidable families of meromorphic functions. For instance, we give new examples of families of cardinality 3 that are unavoidable with respect to the set of meromorphic functions on $\mathbb C$. We further obtain families consisting of less than three functions that are unavoidable with respect to certain subsets of meromorphic functions. In the other direction, we show that for every meromorphic function f, there exists an entire function that avoids f on $\mathbb C$.

We give a partial answer to a question attributed to Chris Miller on algebraic values of certain transcendental functions of order less than one. We obtain $C(\log H)^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}}$ bounds for the number of algebraic points of height at most $H$ on certain subsets of the graphs of such functions. The constant $C$ and exponent $\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}$ depend on data associated with the functions and can be effectively computed from them.

We prove that all transcendental entire functions have infinite topological entropy.

Let A be an invertible operator on a complex Banach space X. For a given α ≥ 0, we define the class $\mathcal{D}$Aα(ℤ) (resp. $\mathcal{D}$Aα (ℤ+)) of all bounded linear operators T on X for which there exists a constant CT>0, such that

$\begin{equation*}\Vert A^{n}TA^{-n}\Vert \leq C_{T}\left( 1+\left\vertn\right\vert \right) ^{\alpha },\end{equation*}$

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It is shown that if f is an analytic function of sufficiently small exponential type in the right half-plane, which takes integer values on a subset of the positive integers having positive lower density, then f is a polynomial.

We examine what can be said about a polynomial p and an entire function f given that p o f is an even, or an odd, function.

A point of departure for this paper is the famous theorem of Hermite and Biehler: If f (z) is a polynomial with complex coefficients ak and its zeros zk satisfy Im Zk < 0, then the polynomials with coefficients Re ak, and Im ak have only real zeros.

We generalize this theorem for some entire functions. The entire functions in Theorem 2 and Theorem 3 are of first and second genus respectively.

Suppose that f is meromorphic in the plane, and that there is a sequence Zn → ∞ and a sequence of positive numbers ∈n → 0, such that ∈n|zn|f#(zn)/log|zn| → ∞. It is shown that if f is analytic and non-zero in the closed discs Δn = {z: |z – zn| ≦∈n|zn|}, n = 1, 2, 3 …, then, given any positive integer K, there are arbitrarily large values of n and there is a point z in Δn such that │f (z)| 〉 |Z│k. Examples are given to show that the hypotheses cannot be relaxed.

In this article we localize the zeros of some polynomials and the derivatives of some entire functions of finite genus. If we put m = 1 in the condition of Theorem 1 we obtain the famous Obreshkoff Theorem which can be regarded as a ‘complex version’ of a well-known theorem due to Laguerre. The nonreal zeros of the derivative of the real entire funtion of Theorem 3 must belong to circles Vk which are similar to the Jen circles for polynomials.