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Entire functions with prescribed singular values

Complex Variables 2020-07-06 v3

Abstract

We introduce a new class of entire functions E\mathcal{E} which consists of all F0O(C)F_0\in\mathcal{O}(\mathbb{C}) for which there exists a sequence (Fn)O(C)(F_n)\in \mathcal{O}(\mathbb{C}) and a sequence (λn)C(\lambda_n)\in\mathbb{C} satisfying Fn(z)=λn+1eFn+1(z)F_n(z)=\lambda_{n+1}e^{F_{n+1}(z)} for all n0n\geq 0. This new class is closed under the composition and its is dense in the space of all non-vanishing entire functions. We prove that every closed set VCV\subset \mathbb{C} containing the origin and at least one more point is the set of singular values of some locally univalent function in E\mathcal{E}, hence this new class has non-trivial intersection with both the Speiser class and the Eremenko-Lyubich class of entire functions. As a consequence we provide a new proof of an old result by Heins which states that every closed set VCV\subset\mathbb{C} is the set of singular values of some locally univalent entire function. The novelty of our construction is that these functions are obtained as a uniform limit of a sequence of entire functions, the process under which the set of singular values is not stable. Finally we show that the class E\mathcal{E} contains functions with an empty Fatou set and also functions whose Fatou set is non-empty.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06026,
  title  = {Entire functions with prescribed singular values},
  author = {Luka Boc Thaler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06026},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Minor corrections. To appear in International Journal of Mathematics

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