On a Question of Chen and Xu
摘要
The paper deals with a question posed by Chen and Xu (Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 22: 197–205, 2022) concerning the uniqueness of higher-order derivatives and shifts of meromorphic functions having hyper-order less than 1. We completely solve the problem. Further, we provide an extended uniqueness result of which Chen-Xu’s problem becomes a special case. Moreover, we provide various examples showing the sharpness of different assumptions of our main result. Finally, we point out a gap in one of the theorems of Chen-Xu (Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 22: 197–205, 2022) in the discussion section.