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J. W. Osborne

Publications and source records attributed to J. W. Osborne.

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arXiv2016

The iterated minimum modulus and conjectures of Baker and Eremenko

In transcendental dynamics significant progress has been made by studying points whose iterates escape to infinity at least as fast as iterates of the maximum modulus. Here we take the novel approach of studying points whose iterates escape at least as fast as iterates of the {\it minimum} modulus, and obtain new results related to Eremenko's conjecture and Baker's conjecture, and the rate of escape in Baker domains. To do this we prove a result of wider interest concerning the existence of points that escape to infinity under the iteration of a positive continuous function.

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arXiv2016

On permutable meromorphic functions

We study the class $\mathcal{M}$ of functions meromorphic outside a countable closed set of essential singularities. We show that if a function in $\mathcal{M}$, with at least one essential singularity, permutes with a non-constant rational map $g$, then $g$ is a Möbius map that is not conjugate to an irrational rotation. For a given function $ f \in\mathcal{M}$ which is not a Möbius map, we show that the set of functions in $\mathcal{M}$ that permute with $ f $ is countably infinite. Finally, we show that there exist transcendental meromorphic functions $f: \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ such that, among functions meromorphic in the plane, $f$ permutes only with itself and with the identity map.

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arXiv2015

Connectedness properties of the set where the iterates of an entire function are unbounded

We investigate the connectedness properties of the set $ I^{\!+\!}(f) $ of points where the iterates of an entire function $ f $ are unbounded. In particular, we show that $ I^{\!+\!}(f) $ is connected whenever iterates of the minimum modulus of $ f $ tend to infinity. For a general transcendental entire function $ f $, we show that $ I^{\!+\!}(f) \cup \lbrace \infty \rbrace $ is always connected and that, if $ I^{\!+\!}(f) $ is disconnected, then it has uncountably many components, infinitely many of which are unbounded.

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arXiv2015

On the set where the iterates of an entire function are neither escaping nor bounded

For a transcendental entire function f, we study the set of points BU(f) whose iterates under f neither escape to infinity nor are bounded. We give new results on the connectedness properties of this set and show that, if U is a Fatou component that meets BU(f), then most boundary points of U (in the sense of harmonic measure) lie in BU(f). We prove this using a new result concerning the set of limit points of the iterates of f on the boundary of a wandering domain. Finally, we give some examples to illustrate our results.

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arXiv2012

Spiders' webs and locally connected Julia sets of transcendental entire functions

We show that, if the Julia set of a transcendental entire function is locally connected, then it takes the form of a spider's web in the sense defined by Rippon and Stallard. In the opposite direction, we prove that a spider's web Julia set is always locally connected at a dense subset of buried points. We also show that the set of buried points (the residual Julia set) can be a spider's web.

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arXiv2010

The structure of spider's web fast escaping sets

Building on recent work by Rippon and Stallard, we explore the intricate structure of the spider's web fast escaping sets associated with certain transcendental entire functions. Our results are expressed in terms of the components of the complement of the set (the 'holes' in the web). We describe the topology of such components and give a characterisation of their possible orbits under iteration. We show that there are uncountably many components having each of a number of orbit types, and we prove that components with bounded orbits are quasiconformally homeomorphic to components of the filled Julia set of a polynomial. We also show that there are singleton periodic components and that these are dense in the Julia set.

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