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Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Armitage gave examples in 2007 of non-constant entire functions that go to zero in every direction in "Entire functions that tend to zero on every line". For this I have only seen the MR review. (If you don't have MathSciNet access, the link should still give you the publication information to find the article.)


Update: I just decided to take a look at the Armitage paper, and the introduction was enlightening:

Although every bounded entire (holomorphic) function on $\mathbb{C}$ is constant (Liouville’s theorem), it has been known for more than a hundred years that there exist nonconstant entire functions $f$ such that $f(z) → 0$ as $z →∞$ along every line through 0 (see, for example, Lindelöf’s book [10, pp. 119–122] of 1905). And it has been known for more than eighty years that such functions can tend to 0 along any line whatsoever (see Mittag-Leffler [11], Grandjot [8], and Bohr [4]). Further references to related work are given in Burckel’s review [5] of Newman’s note [12]. Entire functions with radial decay are used by Beardon and Minda [3] and Ullrich [14] in studies of pointwise convergent sequences of entire functions.

Armitage goes on to mention that Mittag-Leffler and Grandjot also gave explicit constructions, but states, "The examples given in what follows may nevertheless be of some interest because of their comparative simplicity." The examples are $$F(z)=\exp\left(-\int_0^\infty t^{-t}\cosh(tz^2)dt\right) - \exp\left(-\int_0^\infty t^{-t}\cosh(2tz^2)dt\right)$$ and $$G(z)=\int_0^\infty e^{i\pi t}t^{-t}\cosh(t\sqrt{z})dt\int_0^\infty e^{i\pi t}t^{-t}\cos(t\sqrt{z})dt .$$

Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Armitage gave examples in 2007 of non-constant entire functions that go to zero in every direction in "Entire functions that tend to zero on every line". For this I have only seen the MR review. (If you don't have MathSciNet access, the link should still give you the publication information to find the article.)

Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Armitage gave examples in 2007 of non-constant entire functions that go to zero in every direction in "Entire functions that tend to zero on every line". For this I have only seen the MR review. (If you don't have MathSciNet access, the link should still give you the publication information to find the article.)


Update: I just decided to take a look at the Armitage paper, and the introduction was enlightening:

Although every bounded entire (holomorphic) function on $\mathbb{C}$ is constant (Liouville’s theorem), it has been known for more than a hundred years that there exist nonconstant entire functions $f$ such that $f(z) → 0$ as $z →∞$ along every line through 0 (see, for example, Lindelöf’s book [10, pp. 119–122] of 1905). And it has been known for more than eighty years that such functions can tend to 0 along any line whatsoever (see Mittag-Leffler [11], Grandjot [8], and Bohr [4]). Further references to related work are given in Burckel’s review [5] of Newman’s note [12]. Entire functions with radial decay are used by Beardon and Minda [3] and Ullrich [14] in studies of pointwise convergent sequences of entire functions.

Armitage goes on to mention that Mittag-Leffler and Grandjot also gave explicit constructions, but states, "The examples given in what follows may nevertheless be of some interest because of their comparative simplicity." The examples are $$F(z)=\exp\left(-\int_0^\infty t^{-t}\cosh(tz^2)dt\right) - \exp\left(-\int_0^\infty t^{-t}\cosh(2tz^2)dt\right)$$ and $$G(z)=\int_0^\infty e^{i\pi t}t^{-t}\cosh(t\sqrt{z})dt\int_0^\infty e^{i\pi t}t^{-t}\cos(t\sqrt{z})dt .$$

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Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Armitage gave examples in 2007 of non-constant entire functions that go to zero in every direction in "Entire functions that tend to zero on every line". For this I have only seen the MR review. (If you don't have MathSciNet access, the link should still give you the publication information to find the article.)

Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.

Armitage gave examples in 2007 of non-constant entire functions that go to zero in every direction in "Entire functions that tend to zero on every line". For this I have only seen the MR review. (If you don't have MathSciNet access, the link should still give you the publication information to find the article.)

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Jonas Meyer
  • 7.3k
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Newman gave an example in 1976 of a non-constant entire function bounded on each line through the origin in "An entire function bounded in every direction".

I like the second sentence of the article:

This is exactly what is needed to confuse students who have just struggled to comprehend the meaning of Liouville's theorem.