On the growth of solutions of a class of higher order linear differential equations with coefficients having the same order

In this paper, the authors investigate the growth of solutions of a class of higher order linear differential equations f (k) +Ak−1f (k−1) +···+A0f = 0 when most coefficients in the above equations have the same order with each other, and obtain some results which improve previous results due to K.H. Kwon [K.H. Kwon, Nonexistence of finite order solutions of certain second order linear differential equations, Kodai Math. J. 19 (1996) 378–387] and Z.-X. Chen [Z.-X. Chen, The growth of solutions of the differential equation f + e−zf + Q(z)f = 0, Sci. China Ser. A 31 (2001) 775–784 (in Chinese); Z.-X. Chen, On the hyper order of solutions of higher order differential equations, Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. B 24 (2003) 501–508 (in Chinese); Z.-X. Chen, On the growth of solutions of a class of higher order differential equations, Acta Math. Sci. Ser. B 24 (2004) 52–60 (in Chinese); Z.-X. Chen, C.-C. Yang, Quantitative estimations on the zeros and growth of entire solutions of linear differential equations, Complex Var. 42 (2000) 119–133]. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.