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<journal-id>1409-2433</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Matemática Teoría y Aplicaciones]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Mat]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-2433</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigaciones en Matemática Pura y Aplicada (CIMPA) y Escuela de Matemática, San José, Costa Rica.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1409-24332016000100291</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[On a conjecture of R. Brück concerning meromorphic function sharing small functions]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Sobre una conjetura de R.Brück concerniente a la función meromórfica que comparte pequeñas funciones]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Xu]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Hong-Yan]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Yi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Cai-Feng]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Wang]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Hua]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Jingdezhen Jiangxi]]></addr-line>
<country>CN</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Jiangxi Normal University  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Nanchang Jiangxi]]></addr-line>
<country>CN</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Jingdezhen Jiangxi]]></addr-line>
<country>CN</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>23</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>291</fpage>
<lpage>308</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-24332016000100291&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-24332016000100291&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-24332016000100291&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[AbstractIn this paper, we investigate the uniqueness problem on a conjecture of R. Brück concerning meromorphic function sharing the set of small functions with its derivative, and obtain some results which improve the theorems given by Zhang and Yang.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[ResumenEn este artículo, nvestigamos el problema de unicidad sobre una conjetura de R. Brück que concierne una función meromórfica que comparte un conjunto de pequeñas funciones con su derivada, y obtenemos algunos resultados que mejoran los teoremas dados por Zhang y Yang.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[meromorphic function]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[derivative]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[small function]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[función meromórfica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[derivada]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[función pequeña]]></kwd>
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