scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1052533

Publication date 26 August 1997

essential singularity iteration Julia set periodic component

Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05)

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The theory of iteration of rational and entire maps of the plane initiated by Fatou and Julia was later extended to cover that of a meromorphic map of \(\mathbb{C}\) to \(\widehat{\mathbb{C}}\). The author treats a further extension to the class \(S\) of functions \(f\) meromorphic outside a compact countable set \(A(f)\) with essential singularities at all points of \(A(f)\). The definition of Fatou and Julia set are generalized and basic results of the theory extend: for example repelling periodic cycles are dense in the Julia set (a somewhat new proof is given for this). The class \(S\) is closed under composition and for \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), \(f\in S\) the functions \(f\) and \(f^n\) have the same Julia set. The author uses Ahlfors' theory of covering surfaces to prove an interesting covering theorem relating to a function meromorphic outside a compact set of essential singularities of capacity \(0\), any domain \(H\subseteq\widehat{\mathbb{C}}\) and a component of \(f^{-1}(H)\). Applied to functions of the class \(S\) this shows that a periodic component of the Fatou set of \(f\) is simply- or doubly-connected. Even for maps \(f: \mathbb{C}\to\widehat{\mathbb{C}}\), this was previously known only in the special case when the period is \(1\).

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