Baker's conjecture for functions with real zeros

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12124zbMATH Open1407.30009arXiv1502.02526OpenAlexW2963572520WikidataQ122963202 ScholiaQ122963202MaRDI QIDQ4583328FDOQ4583328

Authors: D. A. Nicks, Philip Jonathan Rippon, Gwyneth Mary Stallard 

Publication date: 28 August 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Baker's conjecture states that a transcendental entire function of order less than $1/2$ has no unbounded Fatou components. It is known that, for such functions, there are no unbounded periodic Fatou components and so it remains to show that they can also have no unbounded wandering domains. Here we introduce completely new techniques to show that the conjecture holds in the case that the transcendental entire function is real with only real zeros, and we prove the much stronger result that such a function has no orbits of unbounded wandering domains whenever the order is less than 1. This raises the question as to whether such wandering domains can exist for any transcendental entire function with order less than 1. Key ingredients of our proofs are new results in classical complex analysis with wider applications. These new results concern: the winding properties of the images of certain curves proved using extremal length arguments, growth estimates for entire functions, and the distribution of the zeros of entire functions of order less than 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02526

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zbMATH Keywords

real zerosBaker's conjecturereal entire functionsunbounded wandering domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05) Entire functions of one complex variable (general theory) (30D20) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10)

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