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Publications and source records attributed to Walter Bergweiler.
We give a lower bound for the multipliers of repelling periodic points of entire functions. The bound is deduced from a bound for the multipliers of fixed points of composite entire functions.
We give criteria for the escaping set and the Julia set of an entire function to have positive measure. The results are applied to Poincaré functions of semihyperbolic polynomials and to the Weierstraß $σ$-function.
We describe a new method of constructing transcendental entire functions $A$ such that the differential equation $w"+Aw=0$ has two linearly independent solutions with relatively few zeros. In particular, we solve a problem of Bank and Laine by showing that there exist entire functions $A$ of any prescribed order greater than $1/2$ such that the differential equation has two linearly independent solutions whose zeros have finite exponent of convergence. We show that partial results by Bank, Laine, Langley, Rossi and Shen related to this problem are in fact best possible. We also improve a result of Toda and show that the resulting estimate is best possible. Our method is based on gluing solutions of the Schwarzian differential equation $S(F)=2A$ for infinitely many coefficients $A$.
Let $f$ be an entire function and denote by $f^\#$ be the spherical derivative of $f$ and by $f^n$ the $n$-th iterate of $f$. For an open set $U$ intersecting the Julia set $J(f)$, we consider how fast $\sup_{z\in U} (f^n)^\#(z)$ and $\int_U (f^n)^\#(z)^2 dx\:dy$ tend to $\infty$. We also study the growth rate of the sequence $(f^n)^\#(z)$ for $z\in J(f)$.
We give conditions ensuring that the Julia set and the escaping set of an entire function of completely regular growth have positive Lebesgue measure. The essential hypotheses are that the indicator is positive except perhaps at isolated points and that most zeros are located in neighborhoods of finitely many rays. We apply the result to solutions of linear differential equations.
We consider parameters $λ$ for which $0$ is preperiodic under the map $z\mapstoλe^z$. Given $k$ and $l$, let $n(r)$ be the number of $λ$ satisfying $0<|λ|\leq r$ such that $0$ is mapped after $k$ iterations to a periodic point of period $l$. We determine the asymptotic behavior of $n(r)$ as $r$ tends to $\infty$.
We give a new, simple proof of the fact recently discovered by C.-S. Lin and C.-L. Wang that the Green function of a torus has either three or five critical points, depending on the modulus of the torus. The proof uses anti-holomorphic dynamics. As a byproduct we find a one-parametric family of anti-holomorphic dynamical systems for which the parameter space consists only of hyperbolic components and analytic curves separating them.
We show that the iterative logarithm of each non-linear entire function is differentially transcendental over the ring of entire functions, and we give a sufficient criterion for such an iterative logarithm to be differentially transcendental over the ring of convergent power series.
We show that an invariant Fatou component of a hyperbolic transcendental entire function is a bounded Jordan domain (in fact, a quasidisc) if and only if it contains only finitely many critical points and no asymptotic curves. We use this theorem to prove criteria for the boundedness of Fatou components and local connectivity of Julia sets for hyperbolic entire functions, and give examples that demonstrate that our results are optimal. A particularly strong dichotomy is obtained in the case of a function with precisely two critical values.
Devaney and Krych showed that for $0<λ<1/e$ the Julia set of $λe^z$ consists of pairwise disjoint curves, called hairs, which connect finite points, called the endpoints of the hairs, with $\infty$. McMullen showed that the Julia set has Hausdorff dimension $2$ and Karpińska showed that the set of hairs without endpoints has Hausdorff dimension $1$. We study for which gauge functions the Hausdorff measure of the set of hairs without endpoints is finite.
We describe the limit zero distributions of sequences of polynomials with positive coefficients.
We resolve a question of Bank and Laine on the zeros of solutions of $w'' + Aw = 0$ where $A$ is an entire function of finite order.
It is shown that for quasiregular maps of positive lower order the Julia set coincides with the boundary of the fast escaping set.
The fast escaping set of a transcendental entire function is the set of all points which tend to infinity under iteration as fast as compatible with the growth of the function. We study the analogous set for quasiregular mappings in higher dimensions and show, among other things, that various equivalent definitions of the fast escaping set for transcendental entire functions in the plane also coincide for quasiregular mappings. We also exhibit a class of quasiregular mappings for which the fast escaping set has the structure of a spider's web.
Sun Daochun and Yang Lo have shown that many results of the Fatou-Julia iteration theory of rational functions extend to quasiregular self-maps of the Riemann sphere for which the degree exceeds the dilatation. We show that in this context, in contrast to the case of rational functions, the Julia set may have Hausdorff dimension zero. On the other hand, we exhibit a gauge function depending on the degree and the dilatation such that the Hausdorff measure with respect to this gauge function is always positive, but may be finite.
The escaping set of an entire function is the set of points that tend to infinity under iteration. We consider subsets of the escaping set defined in terms of escape rates and obtain upper and lower bounds for the Hausdorff measure of these sets with respect to certain gauge functions.
We show that there exists an entire function which has neither fixed points nor invariant Baker domains. The question whether such a function exists was raised by Buff.
The Fatou-Julia iteration theory of rational functions has been extended to quasiregular mappings in higher dimension by various authors. The purpose of this paper is an analogous extension of the iteration theory of transcendental entire functions. Here the Julia set is defined as the set of all points such that complement of the forward orbit of any neighbourhood has capacity zero. It is shown that for maps which are not of polynomial type the Julia set is non-empty and has many properties of the classical Julia set of transcendental entire functions.