Periodic points in the intersection of attracting immediate basins boundaries (Q514402)

The context of the paper is the dynamics of rational mappings of the Riemann sphere. If \(B_1\) and \(B_2\) are basins of immediate attraction of two different sinks, does the intersection of their boundaries contain periodic points? It might seem rather obvious, since periodic points are dense in the Julia set, but one should be aware of the example of M. Herman's function \(F_{\theta}(z) = \rho_{\theta}z^2(z-3)/(1-3z)\) with two basins of \(0\) and \(\infty\) with the common boundary included in the unit circle. Yet, if \(\rho_{\theta}\) is chosen to make the rotation number on the unit circle irrational, there will be no periodic points there. The main theorem of the paper is that the only obstacles to the existence of periodic points have to do critical orbits. Periodic points exist unless the intersection of the boundaries contains a critical point with infinite orbit, or intersects with the \(\omega\)-limit set of some recurrent critical point. Under additional conditions one can also show that eventually periodic points are dense in the intersection of boundaries of the sinks. The proof proceeds by showing the dynamics to be expanding in the spherical metric and then uses a fixed point theorem with topological conditions.