On the connectivity of the escaping set in the punctured plane

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Abstract: We consider the dynamics of transcendental self-maps of the punctured plane, mathbbC∗=mathbbCsetminus0. We prove that the escaping set I(f) is either connected, or has infinitely many components. We also show that I(f)cup0,infty is either connected, or has exactly two components, one containing 0 and the other infty. This gives a trichotomy regarding the connectivity of the sets I(f) and I(f)cup0,infty, and we give examples of functions for which each case arises. Finally, whereas Baker domains of transcendental entire functions are simply connected, we show that Baker domains can be doubly connected in mathbbC∗ by constructing the first such example. We also prove that if f has a doubly connected Baker domain, then its closure contains both 0 and infty, and hence I(f)cup0,infty is connected.


The authors consider transcendental self-maps of the punctured plane \(\mathbb{C}^*\). The Fatou, Julia and escaping sets for these functions are defined and denoted by \(F(f)\), \(J(f)\) and \(I(f)\) respectively. The main results are the following: (a) \(I(f) \cup \{0, \infty\}\) is either connected or has exactly two components, one containing 0 and the other \(\infty\). (b) There exists a transcendental self-map of \(\mathbb{C}^*\) that has a doubly connected Baber domain. (c) Let \(f\) be a transcendetal self-map of \(\mathbb{C}^*\), and suppose that \(f\) has a doubly connected Baker domain \(U\). Then the closure of \(U\) in the \(\hat{\mathbb{C}}\) contains both 0 and \(\infty\) and, in particular, \(I(f) \cup \{0, \infty\}\) is connected. The authors provide examples for their results.



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