On the entire functions from the Laguerre--P\'olya class having monotonic second quotients of Taylor coefficients

We investigate the famous Laguerre–Pólya class of entire functions and its subclass, the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I. The functions from these classes can be expressed in terms of the Hadamard Canonical Factorization (see Chapter 1, Definition 1.2 and 1.3). The prominent theorem by E. Laguerre and G. Pólya gives a complete description of the Laguerre–Pólya class and the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I, showing that these classes are the respective closures in the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets of the set of real polynomials having only real zeros (that is, the set of so-called hyperbolic polynomials) and the set of real polynomials having only real negative zeros. Both the Laguerre–Pólya class and the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I play an essential role in complex analysis. For the properties and characterizations of these classes, see, for example, [31] by A. Eremenko, [40] by I.I. Hirschman and D.V. Widder, [43] by S. Karlin, [57] by B.Ja. Levin, [66, Chapter 2] by N. Obreschkov, and [74] by G. Pólya and G. Szegö. In the thesis, we study entire functions with positive coefficients and with the monotonic sequence of their second quotients of Taylor coefficients. We find necessary and sufficient conditions under which such functions belong to the Laguerre–Pólya class (or the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I).:List of symbols Introduction 1 Background of research 1 1.1 The Laguerre–Pólya class .................... 1 1.2 The quotients of Taylor coefficients ............... 3 1.3 Hutchinson’s constant ...................... 4 1.4 Multiplier sequences ....................... 4 1.5 Apolar polynomials........................ 8 1.6 The partial theta function .................... 10 1.7 Decreasing second quotients ................... 13 1.8 Increasing second quotients ................... 14 2 A necessary condition for an entire function with the increasing second quotients of Taylor coefficients to belong to the Laguerre–Pólya class 15 2.1 Proof of Theorem 2.1....................... 16 2.2 The q-Kummer function ..................... 29 2.3 Proof of Theorem 2.10 ...................... 31 2.4 Proof of Theorem 2.11 ...................... 43 3 Closest to zero roots and the second quotients of Taylor coefficients of entire functions from the Laguerre–Pólya I class 49 3.1 Proof of Statement 3.1 ...................... 50 3.2 Proof of Theorem 3.2....................... 53 3.3 Proof of Theorem 3.4....................... 61 3.4 Proof of Theorem 3.6....................... 66 4 Entire functions from the Laguerre–Pólya I class having the increasing second quotients of Taylor coefficients 69 4.1 Proof of Theorem 4.1....................... 70 4.2 Proof of Theorem 4.3....................... 76 5 Number of real zeros of real entire functions with a non-decreasing sequence of the second quotients of Taylor coefficients 81 5.1 Proof of Theorem 5.1....................... 82 5.2 Proof of Corollary 5.2....................... 88 5.3 Proof of Theorem 5.4....................... 88 6 Further questions 95 Acknowledgements 97 Selbständigkeitserklärung 101 Curriculum Vitae 103 Bibliography 10