The purpose of the paper is to study the uniqueness of meromorphic functions sharing a nonzero polynomial. The result of the paper improves and generalizes the recent results due to X. B. Zhang and J. F. Xu (2011). We also solve an open problem posed in the last section of X. B. Zhang and J. F. Xu (2011).
In the paper, dealing with a question of Lahiri (1999), we study the uniqueness of meromorphic functions in the case when two certain types of nonlinear differential polynomials, which are the derivatives of some typical linear expression, namely h n (h − 1)m (h = f, g), share a non-zero polynomial with finite weight. The results obtained in the paper improve, extend, supplement and generalize some recent results due to Sahoo (2013), Li and Gao (2010). In particular, we have shown that under a suitable choice of the sharing non-zero polynomial or when the first derivative is taken under consideration, better conclusions can be obtained.