Marty’s theorem
Theorem (Marty).
A set of meromorphic functions is a normal familyon a domain if and only if the sphericalderivatives are uniformly bounded (uniformly over )on each compact subset of .
Here normal convergence (convergence on compact subsets) is given using thespherical metric and not the standard metric of the complex plane. That is, if is the spherical metric then we will say normallyif converges to 0 uniformly on compact subsets.
A related theorem can be stated.
Theorem.
If uniformly in the spherical metric on compact subsets of then uniformlyon compact subsets of .
Here denotes the spherical derivative of .
References
- 1 Theodore B. Gamelin..Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, 2001.