Dynamics of generalised exponential maps

Abstract

AbstractSince 1984, many authors have studied the dynamics of maps of the form $\mathcal{E}_a(z) = e^z - a$ , with $a > 1$ . It is now well-known that the Julia set of such a map has an intricate topological structure known as a Cantor bouquet, and much is known about the dynamical properties of these functions.It is rather surprising that many of the interesting dynamical properties of the maps $\mathcal{E}_a$ actually arise from their elementary function theoretic structure, rather than as a result of analyticity. We show this by studying a large class of continuous $\mathbb{R}^2$ maps, which, in general, are not even quasiregular, but are somehow analogous to $\mathcal{E}_a$ . We define analogues of the Fatou and the Julia set and we prove that this class has very similar dynamical properties to those of $\mathcal{E}_a$ , including the Cantor bouquet structure, which is closely related to several topological properties of the endpoints of the Julia set.