Valiron's construction in higher dimension (Q971956)

In 1931, \textit{G. Valiron} [Bull. Sci. Math., II. Ser. 55, 105--128 (1931; Zbl 0001.28101; JFM 57.0381.03)] proved that if \(\varphi:\Delta\to\Delta\) is a holomorphic self-map of the unit disk \(\Delta\subset{\mathbb C}\) with Wolff-Denjoy point \(\tau\in\partial\Delta\) and boundary dilatation coefficient~\(c\) in~\(\tau\) strictly between~0 and~1 (the so-called hyperbolic case, excluding only the case \(c=1\)) then there exists a non-constant holomorphic map \(\theta:\Delta\to H\) (where \(H\subset{\mathbb C}\) is the right half-plane) semiconjugating \(\varphi\) with the multiplication by~\(c^{-1}\), i.e., such that \(\theta\circ\varphi=c^{-1}\theta\). Valiron built \(\theta\) working, via the Cayley transform~\(C\), in~\(H\) and proved that \(\theta\) is the limit of the sequence \(x_k^{-1}\phi^k\), where \(\phi=C\circ\varphi\circ C^{-1}\) and \(x_k=\text{Re}\,\phi^k(1)\). In this paper, the authors show that a version of Valiron's construction works in the unit ball \(B^n\subset{\mathbb C}^n\) under suitable assumptions. The main statement is the following: let \(\varphi: B^n\to B^n\) be a holomorphic self-map with Wolff-Denjoy point \(\tau\in\partial B^n\) and boundary dilatation coefficient \(c=\liminf_{z\to\tau}(1-\|\varphi(z)\|)/(1-\|z\|)\in(0,1)\); again, the only excluded case is \(c=1\). Assume that there exists \(z_0\in B^n\) such that, setting \(z_k=\varphi^k(z_0)\), one has \(k_{B^n}(z_k,\langle z_k,\tau\rangle\tau)\to 0\) as \(k\to+\infty\) (where \(k_{B^n}\) denotes the Kobayashi distance of \(B^n\)), and that the ratio \((1-\langle\varphi(z), \tau\rangle)/(1-\langle z,\tau\rangle)\) admits a finite \(K\)-limit at \(\tau\) (where \(\langle\cdot\,,\cdot \rangle\) denotes the canonical Hermitian product). Then one can apply an \(n\)-dimensional version of Valiron's construction to find \(\theta: B^n\to H\) such that \(\theta\circ\varphi=c^{-1}\theta\).