Uniqueness problem with truncated multiplicities in value distribution theory

Abstract

Abstract.In 1929, H. Cartan declared that there are at most two meromorphic functions on ℂ which share four values without multiplicities, which is incorrect but affirmative if they share four values counted with multiplicities truncated by two. In this paper, we generalize such a restricted H. Cartan’s declaration to the case of maps into PN (ℂ). We show that there are at most two nondegenerate meromorphic maps of ℂn into PN(ℂ) which share 3N + 1 hyperplanes in general position counted with multiplicities truncated by two. We also give some degeneracy theorems of meromorphic maps into PN (ℂ) and discuss some other related subjects.