Fatou’s Associates

Suppose that f is a transcendental entire function, $$V \subsetneq {\mathbb {C}}$$ V ⊊ C is a simply connected domain, and U is a connected component of $$f^{-1}(V)$$ f - 1 ( V ) . Using Riemann maps, we associate the map $$f :U \rightarrow V$$ f : U → V to an inner function $$g :{\mathbb {D}}\rightarrow {\mathbb {D}}$$ g : D → D . It is straightforward to see that g is either a finite Blaschke product, or, with an appropriate normalisation, can be taken to be an infinite Blaschke product. We show that when the singular values of f in V lie away from the boundary, there is a strong relationship between singularities of g and accesses to infinity in U. In the case where U is a forward-invariant Fatou component of f, this leads to a very significant generalisation of earlier results on the number of singularities of the map g. If U is a forward-invariant Fatou component of f there are currently very few examples where the relationship between the pair (f, U) and the function g has been calculated. We study this relationship for several well-known families of transcendental entire functions. It is also natural to ask which finite Blaschke products can arise in this manner, and we show the following: for every finite Blaschke product g whose Julia set coincides with the unit circle, there exists a transcendental entire function f with an invariant Fatou component such that g is associated with f in the above sense. Furthermore, there exists a single transcendental entire function f with the property that any finite Blaschke product can be arbitrarily closely approximated by an inner function associated with the restriction of f to a wandering domain.

Clark measures and a theorem of Ritt

We determine when a finite Blaschke product $B$ can be written, in a non-trivial way, as a composition of two finite Blaschke products (Ritt's problem) in terms of the Clark measure for $B$. Our tools involve the numerical range of compressed shift operators and the geometry of certain polygons circumscribing the numerical range of the relevant operator. As a consequence of our results, we can determine, in terms of Clark measures, when two finite Blaschke products commute.

Note on the uniqueness holomorphic function on the unit disk

Let f be an holomorphic function the unit disk to itself. We provide conditions on the local behavior of f along boundary near a finite set of the boundary points that requires f to be a finite Blaschke product.

Reducing subspaces for multiplication operators on the Dirichlet space through local inverses and Riemann surfaces

This paper gives a full characterization of the reducing subspaces for the multiplication operator Mϕ on the Dirichlet space with symbol of finite Blaschke product ϕ of order 5I 6I 7. The reducing subspaces of Mϕ on the Dirichlet space and Bergman space are related. Our strategy is to use local inverses and Riemann surfaces to study the reducing subspaces of Mϕ on the Bergman space. By this means, we determine the reducing subspaces of Mϕ on the Dirichlet space and answer some questions of Douglas-Putinar-Wang in [6].

Representation with majorant of the Schwarz lemma at the boundary

Let f be a holomorphic function in the unit disc and |f(z)?1| < 1 for |z| < 1. We generalize the uniqueness portion of Schwarz?s lemma and provide sufficient conditions on the local behavior of f near a finite set of boundary points that needed for f to be a finite Blaschke product.

Semicrossed Products of the Disk Algebra and the Jacobson Radical

We consider semicrossed products of the disk algebra with respect to endomorphisms defined by finite Blaschke products. We characterize the Jacobson radical of these operator algebras. Furthermore, in the case that the finite Blaschke product is elliptic, we show that the semicrossed product contains no nonzero quasinilpotent elements. However, if the finite Blaschke product is hyperbolic or parabolic with positive hyperbolic step, the Jacobson radical is nonzero and a proper subset of the set of quasinilpotent elements.