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On the connectivity of the escaping set in the punctured plane

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Pith's one-line read For every transcendental self-map of the punctured plane, the escaping set is either connected or has infinitely many components.

desk verdict Solid generalization of Rippon–Stallard to the punctured plane, with a new doubly connected Baker domain; the main trichotomy holds up, though one imported lemma and an unshown example calculation merit attention. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.07383 v2 pith:H2RUOCL7 submitted 2019-08-20 math.DS math.CV

Vasiliki Evdoridou , David Martí-Pete , David J. Sixsmith This is my paper · ORCID
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This paper settles, for holomorphic self-maps of the punctured plane, the possible shapes of the escaping set: the points whose orbits accumulate only at 0 or infinity. It proves that the escaping set is either connected or splits into infinitely many components, and that when 0 and infinity are added, the enlarged set is either connected or has exactly two components, one attached to each singularity. This yields a clean trichotomy, with examples showing each case occurs. The paper also constructs the first example of a doubly connected Baker domain in the punctured plane, a phenomenon impossible for transcendental entire functions, and shows such a domain forces the escaping set plus singularities to be connected.

What carries the argument

The central object is the essential itinerary: the sequence $e=(e_n)\in\{0,\infty\}^{\mathbb{N}_0}$ recording whether $|f^n(z)|\le 1$ or $|f^n(z)|>1$. The paper partitions $I(f)$ into little escaping sets $I_e(f)$ and their finer immediate counterparts $\widetilde{I}_e(f)$, which are the natural containers for escaping Fatou components. The load-bearing mechanism is a harmonic-measure result, quoted as Lemma 3.2, asserting that along a wandering orbit inside a simply connected domain, the boundary points whose iterates stay at spherical distance greater than $c\rho$ from the limit point form a set of harmonic measure zero. Theorem 1.3 applies this to show that, for an escaping wandering domain, the boundary points not in the appropriate $\widetilde{I}_e(f)$ have harmonic measure zero; Corollaries 3.6 and 3.7 then rule out bounded components of $I_e(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$, which is exactly what proves Theorem 1.2. For the Baker-domain construction, the mechanism is a Carleman-type approximation theorem that produces a self-map $f(z)=\exp(g(z+3R)+z^{-2})$ with an invariant doubly connected absorbing set; a lift argument and an index computation ($\mathrm{ind}(f)=0$) then yield Theorem 1.5.

What would settle it

Exhibit a transcendental self-map $f$ of $\mathbb{C}^*$ whose set $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ has a component entirely contained in $\mathbb{C}^*$ (bounded away from both 0 and $\infty$), or whose escaping set $I(f)$ has exactly two components. Theorems 1.2 and 1.1 respectively forbid both possibilities, so either would directly refute the paper's central claims.

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Core claim

For a transcendental self-map $f$ of $\mathbb{C}^*$, the escaping set $I(f)$ cannot have finitely many components beyond one: Theorem 1.1 says $I(f)$ is either connected or has infinitely many components, and the same holds for each little escaping set $I_e(f)$ indexed by an essential itinerary. Theorem 1.2 says $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ is either connected or consists of exactly two components, one containing 0 and the other $\infty$. Together these give the trichotomy (I1)-(I3), and the paper supplies functions realizing each case. In addition, Theorem 1.4 constructs a transcendental self-map of $\mathbb{C}^*$ with a doubly connected Baker domain, disproving for this setting the classical theorem that Baker domains are simply connected; Theorem 1.5 shows that if such a domain exists, then $\mathrm{ind}(f)=0$ and the closure of the domain contains both essential singularities, so $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ is connected.

Load-bearing premise

The argument leans on a quoted harmonic-measure lemma saying that, for a wandering orbit through a sequence of simply connected domains, almost every boundary point must keep returning to the same side of the unit circle as the orbit; if that lemma fails in the punctured-plane setting, the dichotomy for $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ would not be established.

Editorial extensions

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  • No transcendental self-map of $\mathbb{C}^*$ can have an escaping set with exactly two, three, or any finite number greater than one of components; disconnectedness forces infinitely many components.
  • If $I(f)$ is disconnected but $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ is connected, then every component of $I(f)$ must be unbounded in $\mathbb{C}^*$ and no component can be isolated away from both essential singularities.
  • If $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ is disconnected, its two components are distinguished by which essential singularity they contain, and each little escaping set $I_e(f)$ meets both of them.
  • Baker domains in the punctured plane are not governed by the simple-connectivity theorem that holds for entire functions: doubly connected Baker domains exist, and any such domain forces $\mathrm{ind}(f)=0$ and the connectedness of $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$.
  • The trichotomy (I1)-(I3) mirrors the known trichotomy for Julia sets in this setting, so the connectivity of the escaping set and the connectivity of the Julia set can be compared case by case.

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  • The same harmonic-measure machinery should transfer to the little fast escaping sets $A_e(f)$ and $A(f)$, giving the same connected-or-infinitely-many dichotomy for fast escaping points; the paper's remark points in this direction.
  • A natural next question, not addressed here, is whether every possible combination of the (I1)-(I3) cases with the Julia-set trichotomy (J1)-(J3) can be realized; the examples suggest several combinations are attainable.
  • Since Baker's theorem limits the punctured plane to at most one doubly connected Fatou component, the new doubly connected Baker domain likely represents the only new topological type of Baker domain in this setting; a classification of all Baker domains in $\mathbb{C}^*$ would be a testable extension.
  • For transcendental entire functions, whether a disconnected escaping set must have uncountably many components remains open; the punctured-plane result avoids exceptional points via Picard's theorem, so a similar dichotomy there may require new ideas rather than a direct transfer.
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Summary. The paper studies the dynamics of transcendental self-maps of the punctured plane C* and establishes a trichotomy for the connectivity of the escaping set I(f) and of I(f) ∪ {0,∞}. Theorem 1.1 states that I(f) and each little escaping set I_e(f) are either connected or have infinitely many components. Theorem 1.2 states that I(f) ∪ {0,∞} is connected or has exactly two components, one containing 0 and the other ∞. Together these yield cases (I1)-(I3), and the paper provides examples realizing each case. Theorem 1.3 gives a harmonic-measure result on the boundary of escaping wandering domains, which is used to prove Theorem 1.2. Theorem 1.4 constructs the first example of a transcendental self-map of C* with a doubly connected Baker domain, and Theorem 1.5 shows that if such a domain exists, then the closure of the Baker domain contains both 0 and ∞ and I(f) ∪ {0,∞} is connected.

Significance. The main results are natural analogues of the Rippon-Stallard theory for transcendental entire functions, and the trichotomy for I(f) ∪ {0,∞} is a clean and useful classification. The construction of a doubly connected Baker domain is an important new phenomenon, since Baker domains of transcendental entire functions are simply connected. The proofs of Theorems 1.1 and 1.5 are elegant, and the topological index argument in Lemma 5.3 is particularly clear. The paper also gives concrete examples that are well chosen and appear to correctly illustrate all three connectivity cases. The main reservation is that Theorem 1.2 relies on the proof of Theorem 1.3, and that proof is currently too compressed in a place that is genuinely load-bearing.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 3, proof of Theorem 1.3] The reduction 'We can assume, therefore, that U_n is simply connected for n in N0' is not fully justified. If the unique doubly connected Fatou component is U itself, Lemma 3.2 cannot be applied with G0 = U, and the argument must be shifted to some later U_{N+1} and then pulled back to ∂U. The paper should spell out this shift, state precisely how the harmonic-measure-zero property transfers through the pullback when U is doubly connected, and verify that the resulting domains G_k = U_{n_k} are disjoint and simply connected. This step is essential for Corollary 3.6 and hence for Theorem 1.2.
  2. [Section 3, Lemma 3.2] Lemma 3.2 is quoted from [OS16, Lemma 4.1] without proof, but it is the central mechanism of Theorem 1.3. Since the paper applies the lemma to Fatou components of a transcendental self-map of C*, not to the original entire-function setting, the hypotheses deserve a direct verification. Please include a proof or a detailed restatement of the lemma together with a check that the analyticity, continuity, and boundary-mapping hypotheses hold for the maps f^{n_k - n_{k-1}} restricted to the relevant Fatou components.
  3. [Section 5, proof of Theorem 1.5] The claim that 'each of the components of the preimage of γ in H_{n0+1} is a curve γ'' that is unbounded in C*' is stated without proof. This is a load-bearing point for the conclusion that the closure of the Baker domain contains both 0 and ∞. The proof should justify why every such preimage component is unbounded in C* and why each complementary component of H_{n0} in U contains one of them, since this is not an immediate consequence of the preceding definitions.
  4. [Section 4, Example 5] The key calculation for Example 5 is omitted: the text says 'it is a calculation that E ⊆ I(cosh z) and that E contains every preimage of the real line.' These are precisely the hypotheses needed for Proposition 4.1, and they are not evident. Please provide the estimates showing that the grid E lies in the escaping set of cosh and that every component of cosh^{-1}(E) is met by E, so that the connectivity conclusion for I∞(f) is actually established.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Throughout] There are several typos: 'satifies' should be 'satisfies', 'Berweiler' should be 'Bergweiler', and 'cuve' should be 'curve'.
  2. [Corollary 3.3] The wording 'apart possibly from a set of harmonic measure zero relative to V , points z∈∂V satisfy that, for any R>0, Re f~n(z)>R' is awkward; it should say that for all such z and all R>0 the stated inequalities hold for all sufficiently large n.
  3. [Proof of Theorem 1.2] The sentence 'by Picard's theorem, Ae(f) meets both sets H0 and H∞' is terse; it would help to state explicitly that transcendental self-maps of C* have no exceptional values and to explain why this implies that every nonempty backward-invariant escaping set meets both sides of the separating open sets.
  4. [Example 2] The deduction that the two halves of the imaginary axis lie in attracting Fatou components is plausible but would benefit from a sentence explaining that the attracting fixed point y0 of f^ on the positive real line gives an attracting fixed point i y0 for f, and similarly for -i y0.

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No significant circularity: the connectivity theorems are proved from external potential-theoretic and dynamical ingredients, and the self-citations used are independent published results rather than definitions of the claimed conclusions.

full rationale

The derivation chain contains no step in which a claimed conclusion is defined in terms of its own input or in which a fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. Theorem 1.1 is obtained from Theorem 2.1, which is proved in the text as a generalization of Rippon and Stallard, together with the published fact from [Mar18, Theorem 1.1] that I_e(f) intersects J(f) and that J(f) = I_e(f) ∩ J(f); neither of these inputs contains the connectivity dichotomy. Theorem 1.2 is derived from Corollary 3.7, which uses Theorem 1.3 and Lemma 3.4; Theorem 1.3 is the only place where the external Lemma 3.2, cited from [OS16, Lemma 4.1], is invoked. Lemma 3.2 is a general harmonic-measure statement about sequences of disjoint simply connected domains in the Riemann sphere, and its assumptions do not include the escaping-set trichotomy or the connectivity of I(f) ∪ {0,∞}, so it is a proof ingredient rather than a circular reduction. The one compressed step is in the proof of Theorem 1.3, where the paper says: 'By a result of Baker [Bak87], there is at most one value N ∈ N0 such that U_N is doubly connected... We can assume, therefore, that U_n is simply connected for n ∈ N0.' This is a finite-tail shift combined with a pullback via [Ran95, Theorem 4.3.8]; the details are not written out, but this is an omitted verification or potential proof gap, not a definitional or fitted circularity. The construction of the doubly connected Baker domain in Theorem 1.4 uses only the approximation-theoretic Lemma 5.1 and explicit estimates, while Lemmas 5.2 and 5.3 use [Mar19] and [Rip08] for lifts and absorbing sets, again independent of the target conclusions. The self-citations to [Mar18], [Mar19], [EMS19], and [OS16] are load-bearing in places, but they are published, parameter-free results with stated assumptions that do not include the connectivity trichotomy; under the reviewing rules they count as real evidence and do not raise the circularity score.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 9 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central results draw on a standard body of transcendental dynamics and potential theory rather than on fitted constants. The auxiliary constants in the constructions, such as a sufficiently large R in Theorem 1.4 and λ in Example 1, are existential witnesses rather than tuned degrees of freedom, so the ledger lists no free parameters. One illustrative example contains an unproved calculation, recorded as an ad hoc axiom.

assumptions (9)
  • standard math Picard's theorem and the absence of exceptional points for holomorphic self-maps of C*.
    Used in the remark after Theorem 2.1 and in the proof of Theorem 1.2 to ensure that fast escaping sets meet neighborhoods of both 0 and infinity.
  • domain assumption Blowing-up property for the Julia set of a transcendental self-map of C* (Rådström 1953, Lemma 2.2).
    Any open set meeting J(f) eventually maps onto any compact set; this is the engine of Theorem 2.1 and hence of Theorem 1.1.
  • domain assumption Results of Martín-Pete [Mar18, Theorem 1.1 and Lemma 3.4] that I_e(f)∩J(f) is non-empty, J(f)=∂I_e(f), and all components of I_e(f) and the fast escaping sets A_e(f) are unbounded in C*.
    Used as black boxes in the proofs of Theorems 1.1, 1.2, 3.4, 3.5, and Example 5; they are prior published results by a co-author but are not restatements of the connectivity claims.
  • domain assumption Baker's theorem that every Fatou component of a transcendental self-map of C* is simply or doubly connected and at most one is doubly connected (Bak87).
    Invoked at the start of the proof of Theorem 1.3 to reduce to a sequence of simply connected domains in the harmonic-measure argument.
  • standard math Lemma 3.2 from [OS16, Lemma 4.1] on harmonic measure zero for boundary points whose iterates stay far from a spherical limit point.
    The key external lemma for Theorem 1.3; the paper states it but does not prove it.
  • standard math Gaier's approximation theorem (Lemma 5.1) giving an entire function g that uniformly approximates a holomorphic function on a closed sector-like set S with prescribed error ε(r).
    Used to build the transcendental self-map f(z)=exp(g(z+3R)+z^{-2}) in the proof of Theorem 1.4.
  • domain assumption Classification of Baker domains for transcendental entire functions and existence of simply connected absorbing sets ([Rip08, Theorem 5.1], [Cow81], [Mar19, Lemma 3.5]).
    Used in Lemma 5.2 and Theorem 1.5 to transfer the absorbing-set construction from entire functions to C*.
  • domain assumption Bergweiler's theorem that J(\tilde f)=exp^{-1}(J(f)) for lifts, and that J(cosh z)=C, so J(f)=C* for the Example 5 map (Ber95).
    Used in Example 5 to verify the hypotheses of Proposition 4.1 for the connectedness of I∞(f).
  • ad hoc to paper In Example 5, the set E=iR∪⋃_{n∈Z}{y=nπ} satisfies E⊆I(cosh z) and meets every component of cosh^{-1}(E).
    The connectedness conclusion for I∞(f) in Example 5 depends on this assertion, which the paper labels 'it is a calculation' but does not actually perform.

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abstract

We consider the dynamics of transcendental self-maps of the punctured plane, $\mathbb{C}^*=\mathbb{C}\setminus \{0\}$. We prove that the escaping set $I(f)$ is either connected, or has infinitely many components. We also show that $I(f)\cup \{0,\infty\}$ is either connected, or has exactly two components, one containing $0$ and the other $\infty$. This gives a trichotomy regarding the connectivity of the sets $I(f)$ and $I(f)\cup \{0,\infty\}$, and we give examples of functions for which each case arises. Finally, whereas Baker domains of transcendental entire functions are simply connected, we show that Baker domains can be doubly connected in $\mathbb{C}^*$ by constructing the first such example. We also prove that if $f$ has a doubly connected Baker domain, then its closure contains both $0$ and $\infty$, and hence $I(f)\cup\{0,\infty\}$ is connected.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. An illustration of the function ˆf from Example 2. Note that ˆf has a unique attracting fixed point on the positive real line at a point y0 ≈ 1.087, and it is bounded on the real line. We can deduce that f has two attracting fixed points at ±y0i, and that {0 + iy : y > 0} and {0 + iy : y < 0} [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. An illustration of the dynamics of the function f from Example 2. Escaping points are coloured in grey, and yellow points lie in the basins of attraction of two attracting fixed points ±iy0 (•), which contain the two halves of the imaginary axis. Next, we give examples of transcendental self-maps f of C ∗ satisfying prop￾erty (I3). Recall that, for such maps, I(f) ∪ {0,∞} is disconnected, and hence also I(f) is disc… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. An illustration of the dynamics of the function f from Example 3. Escaping points are coloured in grey, and yellow points lie in the basin of attraction of an attracting fixed point (•) in R, which is doubly connected. In the right, a zoom of the origin. Other examples of functions with doubly connected Fatou components in the complement of I(f), such as Herman rings, were given by Baker and Dom´ınguez; see the expo… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: ). Note that for some parameters J(fα,β) = C ∗ , but otherwise fα,β can have a Herman ring, or other types of Fatou components. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The set S 0 in the proof of Theorem 1.4. Thus, z ∈ S 0 implies that Re f(z) > Re z + 2R and hence also that f(z) ∈ S 0 . We can deduce that S 0 lies in an invariant Baker domain of f. Since S 0 contains the circle {z ∈ C : |z| = 3R/4}, the Baker domain must be doubly c…

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