Gateaux differentiability in the Banach space of meromorphic functions

Abstract: We study the Gateaux differentiability in the Banach space of meromorphic functions and obtain a complete characterization of the same, by using Birkhoff-James orthogonality techniques. We introduce the concept of extended orthogonality covering set (EOCS), which allows us to present refinements of some earlier results on the Gateaux differentiability of analytic functions. We also discuss some related properties of meromorphic functions which follow directly from the said characterization.