Dynamic rays of bounded-type transcendental self-maps of the punctured plane (Q515250)

The authors study the iteration of holomorphic self-maps of the punctured plane \(\mathbb{C}^* =\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}\) having \(0\) and infinity as essential singularities, and they obtain analogues for such functions of several results concerning the dynamics of entire functions. The authors introduce the class \(\mathcal{B}^*\) of holomorphic self-maps of \(\mathbb{C}^*\) for which the set of singularities of the inverse of \(f\) is bounded away from \(0\) and infinity. This class is the analogue of the {Eremenko-Lyubich class} \(\mathcal{B}\) of entire functions for which the set of singularities of the inverse of \(f\) is bounded. The authors prove that for \(f\in\mathcal{B}^*\), the escaping set \(I(f)\), that is the set of all points \(z\in \mathbb{C}^*\) for which the orbit \(\{f^n(z) : n\in\mathbb{N}\}\) has no accumulation points different from \(0\) and infinity, is contained in the Julia set \(J(f)\) of \(f\). They also obtain an analogue of a result of \textit{G. Rottenfusser} et al. [Ann. Math. (2) 173, No. 1, 77--125 (2011; Zbl 1232.37025)] by proving that if \(f\) is a finite composition of transcendental holomorphic self-maps of \(\mathbb{C}^*\) of finite order, then every point \(z\in I(f)\) can be connected to \(0\) or infinity by a curve \(\gamma\) such that \(f^n|_\gamma\to \{0,\infty\}\) uniformly with respect to the spherical metric. The paper contains several other interesting results concerning holomorphic self-maps of \(\mathbb{C}^*\).