In the complex function theory, Picard’s Great Theorem plays an essential and important role. It is well-known as generalizations of this theorem that in a neighborhood of an isolated essential singularity, a meromorphic function cannot be exceptionally ramified (see W. Gross [2]) and that even it cannot be normal (see O. Lehto and K. I. Virtanen [7]). We are therefore interested in the behaviour of meromorphic functions with non-isolated essential singularities as well as in generalizations of the Gross’ result. Several approaches in this direction have been made by G. af Hällström [3], S. Kametani [4], K. Noshiro [13], K. Matsumoto [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], S. Toppila [15], etc..
We are interested in whether there is a Cantor set E admitting no exceptionally ramified or normal meromorphic functions with E as the set of essential singularities. As for an exceptionally ramified meromorphic function, we [2] have recently given the following result.
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