AbstractIn the paper we investigate slice holomorphic functions F : ℂn → ℂ having bounded L-index in a direction, i.e. these functions are entire on every slice {z0 + tb : t ∈ℂ} for an arbitrary z0 ∈ℂn and for the fixed direction b ∈ℂn \ {0}, and (∃m0 ∈ ℤ+) (∀m ∈ ℤ+) (∀z ∈ ℂn) the following inequality holds{{\left| {\partial _{\bf{b}}^mF(z)} \right|} \over {m!{L^m}(z)}} \le \mathop {\max }\limits_{0 \le k \le {m_0}} {{\left| {\partial _{\bf{b}}^kF(z)} \right|} \over {k!{L^k}(z)}},where L : ℂn → ℝ+ is a positive continuous function,
{\partial _{\bf{b}}}F(z) = {d \over {dt}}F\left( {z + t{\bf{b}}} \right){|_{t = 0}},\partial _{\bf{b}}^pF = {\partial _{\bf{b}}}\left( {\partial _{\bf{b}}^{p - 1}F} \right)for p ≥ 2. Also, we consider index boundedness in the direction of slice holomorphic solutions of some partial differential equations with partial derivatives in the same direction. There are established sufficient conditions providing the boundedness of L-index in the same direction for every slie holomorphic solutions of these equations.