Growth and fixed points of solutions and their arbitrary-order derivatives of higher-order linear differential equations in the unit disc

In this paper, we investigate the growth and fixed points of solutions of higher-order linear differential equations in the unit disc. We extend the coefficient conditions to a type of one-constant-control coefficient comparison and obtain the same estimates of iterated order of solutions. We also obtain better estimates by providing a precise value of iterated order of solution instead of a range of that in the case of coefficient characteristic function comparison. Moreover, we utilize iteration to investigate and estimate the fixed points of solutions’ arbitrary-order derivatives with higher-order equations $f^{(k)}+A_{k-1}(z)f^{(k-1)}+{\cdots }+A_{1}(z)f'+A_{0}(z)f=0$ f ( k ) + A k − 1 ( z ) f ( k − 1 ) + ⋯ + A 1 ( z ) f ′ + A 0 ( z ) f = 0 and provide a concise method to judge if the items generated by the iteration do not vanish identically and ensure the iteration proceeds. Our results are an improvement over those by B. Belaïdi, T. B. Cao, G. W. Zhang and A. Chen.