On convergence to the Denjoy-Wolff point (Q2567508)

For holomorphic selfmaps of the open unit disc \(\mathbb U\) that are not elliptic automorphisms, Schwarz's lemma and Denjoy-Wolff's theorem combine to yield a remarkable result: each such map \(\phi\) has a (necessarily unique) ``Denjoy-Wolff point'' \(\omega\) in the closed unit disc that attracts every orbit in the sense that the iterate sequence \((\phi^n)\) converges to \(\omega\) uniformly on compact subsets of \(\mathbb U\). In this paper, the authors proved that, except for the obvious counterexamples---inner functions having \(\omega\in\mathbb U\), the iterate sequence exhibits an even stronger affinity for the Denjoy-Wolff point: \(\phi^n\to\omega\) in the norm of the Hardy space \(H^p\) for \(1\leq p<\infty\). For each such map, some subsequence of iterates converges to \(\omega\) almost everywhere on \(\partial\mathbb U\), so the authors studied the question of almost-everywhere convergence of the entire iterate sequence. Their work makes natural connections with two important aspects of the study of holomorphic selfmaps of the unit disc: linear-fractional models and ergodic properties of inner functions.