Positive cases to the branch point problem (Q4354192)

Fatou's theorem states that a bounded analytic function in the unit disk admits radial limits almost everywhere on the unit circle \(C\). If we relax the condition of boundedness of \(f\) in the hypothesis of Fatou's theorem to unboundedness of the maximum modulus function \(M_{f(r)}\) such that \(M_{f(r)}< q(r)\), where \(q(r)\) has a slow growth to infinity, we can only hope to obtain asymptotic values instead of radial limits at points of \(C\). The MacLane class \(A\) of analytic functions is the class of non constant analytic functions in the unit disk \(C\) that have asymptotic values at a dense subset of the unit circle \(C\). The main purpose of this paper is to consider a question posed by MacLane in 1969 on whether functions in \(A\) with an arc tract have branch points. We answer this question positively in the special case where the finite asymptotic values are bounded and where infinity is linearly accessible at least at two points of the end of the tract.