Hyperbolic entire functions and the Eremenko-Lyubich class: Class B or not class B?

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DOI10.1007/S00209-016-1784-9zbMATH Open1392.37039arXiv1502.00492OpenAlexW3102446763WikidataQ59613976 ScholiaQ59613976MaRDI QIDQ2406006FDOQ2406006


Authors: Lasse Rempe, D. J. Sixsmith Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 September 2017

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hyperbolicity plays an important role in the study of dynamical systems, and is a key concept in the iteration of rational functions of one complex variable. Hyperbolic systems have also been considered in the study of transcendental entire functions. There does not appear to be an agreed definition of the concept in this context, due to complications arising from the non-compactness of the phase space. In this article, we consider a natural definition of hyperbolicity that requires expanding properties on the preimage of a punctured neighbourhood of the isolated singularity. We show that this definition is equivalent to another commonly used one: a { ef} is hyperbolic if and only if its postsingular set is a compact subset of the Fatou set. This leads us to propose that this notion should be used as the general definition of hyperbolicity in the context of entire functions, and, in particular, that speaking about hyperbolicity makes sense only within the emph{Eremenko-Lyubich class} mathcalB of transcendental entire functions with a bounded set of singular values. We also considerably strengthen a recent characterisation of the class mathcalB, by showing that functions outside of this class cannot be expanding with respect to a metric whose density decays at most polynomially. In particular, this implies that no transcendental entire function can be expanding with respect to the spherical metric. Finally we give a characterisation of an analogous class of functions analytic in a hyperbolic domain.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00492




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