On Fatou-Bieberbach domains (Q1273137)

A Fatou-Bieberbach domain is a domain in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) which is the biholomorphic image of \(\mathbb{C}^2\) but is not all of \(\mathbb{C}^2\). Such domains have been known for some time, but many questions regarding their geometry remain open. Let \(\Delta\) be the unit disc in \(\mathbb{C}\) and let \(Q\subset\mathbb{C}\) be a bounded open set with \(C^1\) boundary and connected complement. Let \(0<R<\infty\) be such that \(\overline Q\subset R\Delta\). The author shows that there is a Fatou-Bieberbach domain \(\Omega\) contained in \(\{(z,w)\in\mathbb{C}^2\mid| z|<\max\{R,| w|\}\}\) such that \(\Omega\cap R(\Delta\times\Delta)\) is an arbitrarily small \(C^1\) perturbation of \(Q\times R\Delta\). The biholomorphism may be chosen to be volume preserving. This result implies among other things that there are Fatou-Bieberbach domains whose intersection with a complex line is connected.