Order and Growth
The order (at infinity) of an entire function f(z) is defined using the limit superior as:
where Br is the disk of radius r and denotes the supremum norm of f(z) on Br. If 0<ρ<∞, one can also define the type:
In other words, the order of f(z) is the infimum of all m such that f(z) = O(exp(|z|m)) as z → ∞. The order need not be finite.
Entire functions may grow as fast as any increasing function: for any increasing function g: [0,∞) → R there exists an entire function f(z) such that f(x)>g(|x|) for all real x. Such a function f may be easily found of the form:
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for a conveniently chosen strictly increasing sequence of positive integers nk. Any such sequence defines an entire series f(z); and if it is conveniently chosen, the inequality f(x)>g(|x|) also holds, for all real x.
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