We investigate the growth of meromorphic solutions of homogeneous and
nonhomogeneous higher order linear differential equations f(k) + k-1?j=1
Ajf(j) + A0f = 0 (k ? 2); f(k) + k-1 ?j=1 Ajf(j) + A0f = Ak (k ? 2); where
Aj(z)(j=0,1,...,k) are meromorphic functions with finite order. Under some
conditions on the coefficients, we show that all meromorphic solutions f ?/0 of
the above equations have an infinite order and infinite lower order.
Furthermore, we give some estimates of their hyper-order, exponent and
hyper-exponent of convergence of distinct zeros. We improve the results due
to Kwon, Chen and Yang, Bela?di, Chen, Shen and Xu.