Iteration of meromorphic functions

This paper attempts to describe some of the results obtained in the iteration theory of transcendental meromorphic functions, not excluding the case of entire functions. The reader is not expected to be familiar with the iteration theory of rational functions. On the other hand, some aspects where the transcendental case is analogous to the rational case are treated rather briefly here. For example, we introduce the different types of components of the Fatou set that occur in the iteration of rational functions but omit a detailed description of these types. Instead, we concentrate on the types of components that are special to transcendental functions (Baker domains and wandering domains).Comment: 38 pages. Abstract added in migration. See http://analysis.math.uni-kiel.de/bergweiler/ for recent comments and correction

Exotic Baker and wandering domains for Ahlfors islands maps

Let X be a Riemann surface of genus at most 1, i.e. X is the Riemann sphere or a torus. We construct a variety of examples of analytic functions g:W->X, where W is an arbitrary subdomain of X, that satisfy Epstein's "Ahlfors islands condition". In particular, we show that the accumulation set of any curve tending to the boundary of W can be realized as the omega-limit set of a Baker domain of such a function. As a corollary of our construction, we show that there are entire functions with Baker domains in which the iterates converge to infinity arbitrarily slowly. We also construct Ahlfors islands maps with wandering domains and logarithmic singularities, as well as examples where X is a compact hyperbolic surface.Comment: 18 page