Brück's conjecture for entire functions sharing a finite value with their derivative

Let ff be a non-constant entire function. Its hyper-order is denoted by ρ1(f)\rho_1(f); two meromorphic functions share a value aa CM when their aa-points, counted with multiplicities, coincide.

Brück's conjecture. If

ρ1(f)N{},\rho_1(f)\notin\mathbb{N}\cup\{\infty\},

and ff and ff' share one finite value aa CM, then

fa=c(fa),cC\{0}.f'-a=c(f-a),\qquad c\in\mathbb{C}\backslash\{0\}.

This is a value-sharing analogue of uniqueness results for entire functions and their derivatives. The supplied text identifies it as a conjecture proposed by Brück, but gives no resolution evidence.

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Primary source

Nabadwip Sarkar, Debabrata Pramanik and Lata Mahato, “On the two conjectures”, arXiv:2511.13796 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2511.01637, arXiv:2509.06783, arXiv:2003.01557, arXiv:1811.07075.

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