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Ratna Pal

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arXiv2026

On automorphisms of super-level sets of Green's functions of Hénon maps

The aim of this article is two-fold. First, we obtain a normal form for automorphisms of the escaping sets of Hénon maps in a neighborhood of the attracting fixed point at infinity. Building on this local description, we characterize the global automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^2$ that preserve the escaping sets. The analytic structure of the escaping sets, as established by Hubbard--Oberste-Vorth (\cite{HOV}), plays a crucial role in the proof of these results. In a similar spirit, we investigate the analytic structure of the super-level sets of the Green's functions associated with Hénon maps and give a description of the automorphisms of these domains.

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arXiv2025

Increasing sequences of complex manifolds with uniform squeezing constants and their Bergman spaces

For $d\geq 2$, we discuss $d$-dimensional complex manifolds $M$ that are the increasing union of bounded open sets $M_n$'s of $\mathbb{C}^d$ with a common uniform squeezing constant. The description of $M$ is given in terms of the corank of the infinitesimal Kobayashi metric of $M$, which is shown to be identically constant on $M$. The main result of this article says that if $M$ has full Kobayashi corank, then $M$ can be written as an increasing union of the unit ball; if $M$ has zero Kobayashi corank, then $M$ has a bounded realization with a uniform squeezing constant; and if $M$ has an intermediate Kobayashi corank, then $M$ has a local weak vector bundle structure. The above description of $M$ is used to show that the dimension of the Bergman space of $M \subseteq \mathbb{C}^d$ is either zero or infinity. This settles Wiegerinck's conjecture for those pseudoconvex domains in higher dimensions that are increasing union of bounded domains with a common uniform squeezing constant.

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arXiv2022

On the automorphism group of certain Short $\mathbb C^2$'s

For a Hénon map of the form $H(x, y) = (y, p(y) - ax)$, where $p$ is a polynomial of degree at least two and $a \not= 0$, it is known that the sub-level sets of the Green's function $G^+_H$ associated with $H$ are Short $\mathbb C^2$'s. For a given $c > 0$, we study the holomorphic automorphism group of such a Short $\mathbb C^2$, namely $Ω_c = \{ G^+_H < c \}$. The unbounded domain $Ω_c \subset \mathbb C^2$ is known to have smooth real analytic Levi-flat boundary. Despite the fact that $Ω_c$ admits an exhaustion by biholomorphic images of the unit ball, it turns out that its automorphism group, Aut$(Ω_c)$ cannot be too large. On the other hand, examples are provided to show that these automorphism groups are non-trivial in general. We also obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for such a pair of Short $\mathbb C^2$'s to be biholomorphic.

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arXiv2022

Conformal Rigidity of Polar Set Complements

Let $E$ be a closed polar subset of $\mathbb{C}$. In this short note, we use elementary potential theoretic tools to show that any conformal map on $\mathbb{C}\setminus{E}$ is necessarily a Möbius map. As a consequence we obtain that the group of conformal automorphisms of the complement of a closed polar set $E$ is a discrete subgroup of the Möbius group, provided $\lvert E \rvert \ge 2$.

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arXiv2021

Notes on Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s

Domains that are increasing union of balls (up to biholomorphism) and on which the Kobayashi metric vanishes identically arise inexorably in complex analysis. In this article we show that in higher dimensions these domains have infinite volume and the Bergman spaces of these domains are trivial. As a consequence they fail to be strictly pseudo-convex at each of their boundary points although these domains are pseudo-convex by definition. These domains can be of different types and one of them is Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s. In pursuit of identifying the Runge Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s (up to biholomorphism), we introduce a special class of Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s, called Loewner Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s. These are those Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s which can be exhausted in a continuous manner by a strictly increasing parametrized family of open sets, each of which is biholomrphically equivalent to the unit ball and therefore, they are Runge up to biholomorphism. Although, the question of whether all Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s are Runge (up to biholomorphism), or whether all Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s are Loewner remains unsettled, we show that the typical Short $\mathbb{C}^k$'s are Loewner. In the final section, we construct a bunch of non-autonomous basins of attraction, which serve as interesting examples of Short $\mathbb{C}^2$'s.

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arXiv2019

Further remarks on rigidity of Hénon maps

For a Hénon map $H$ in $\mathbb{C}^2$, we characterize the polynomial automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^2$ which keep any fixed level set of the Green function of $H$ completely invariant. The interior of any non-zero sublevel set of the Green function of a Hénon map turns out to be a Short $\mathbb{C}^2$ and as a consequence of our characterization, it follows that there exists no polynomial automorphism apart from possibly the affine automorphisms which acts as an automorphism on any of these Short $\mathbb{C}^2$'s. Further, we prove that if any two level sets of the Green functions of a pair of Hénon maps coincide, then they almost commute.

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arXiv2019

Rigidity of Julia sets of families of biholomorphic mappings in higher dimension

The goal of this article is to study a rigidity property of Julia sets of certain classes of automorphisms in $\mathbb{C}^k$, $k \ge 3.$ First, we study the relation between two polynomial shift-like maps in $\mathbb{C}^k$, $k \ge 3$, that share the same backward and forward Julia sets (or non-escaping sets). Secondly, we study the relationship between any pair of skew products of Hénon maps in $\mathbb{C}^3$ having the same forward and backward Julia sets.

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arXiv2018

Fatou-Julia dichotomy of matrix-valued polynomials

This article gives a precise description of the Fatou sets and Julia sets of matrix-valued polynomials in $\mathcal{M}(2,\mathbb{C})$ in terms of the corresponding polynomials in $\mathbb{C}$. Further, we construct Green functions and Böttcher-type functions for these matrix-valued polynomials.

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arXiv2018

A rigidity theorem for Hénon maps

The purpose of this note is two fold. First, we study the relation between a pair of Hénon maps that share the same forward and backward non-escaping sets. Second, it is shown that there exists a continuum of $Short-\mathbb{C}^2$'s that are biholomorphically inequivalent and finally, we provide examples of $Short-\mathbb{C}^2$'s that are neither Reinhardt nor biholomorphic to Reinhardt domains.

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arXiv2017

Ergodic properties of families of Hénon maps

Let $\{H_λ\}$ be a continuous family of Hénon maps parametrized by $λ\in M$, where $M\subset\mathbb C^k$ is compact. The purpose of this paper is to understand some aspects of the random dynamical system obtained by iterating maps from this family. As an application, we study skew products of Hénon maps and obtain lower bounds for their entropy.

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arXiv2017

Examples of non-autonomous basins of attraction

The purpose of this paper is to present several examples of non--autonomous basins of attraction that arise from sequences of automorphisms of $\mathbb C^k$. In the first part, we prove that the non-autonomous basin of attraction arising from a pair of automorphisms of $\mathbb C^2$ of a prescribed form is biholomorphic to $\mathbb C^2$. This, in particular, provides a partial answer to a question raised in connection with Bedford's Conjecture about uniformizing stable manifolds. In the second part, we describe three examples of Short $\mathbb C^k$'s with specified properties. First, we show that for $k \geq 3$, there exist $(k-1)$ mutually disjoint Short $\mathbb C^k$'s in $\mathbb C^k$. Second, we construct a Short $\mathbb C^k$, large enough to accommodate a Fatou-Bieberbach domain, that avoids a given algebraic variety of codimension $2$. Lastly, we discuss examples of Short $\mathbb C^k$'s with (piece-wise) smooth boundaries.

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arXiv2015

Dynamics of semigroups of entire maps of $\mathbb{C}^k$

The goal of this paper is to study some basic properties of the Fatou and Julia sets for a family of holomorphic endomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^k,\; k \ge 2$. We are particularly interested in studying these sets for semigroups generated by various classes of holomorphic endomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^k,\; k \ge 2.$ We prove that if the Julia set of a semigroup $G$ which is generated by endomorphisms of maximal generic rank $k$ in $\mathbb{C}^k$ contains an isolated point, then $G$ must contain an element that is conjugate to an upper triangular automorphism of $\mathbb{C}^k.$ This generalizes a theorem of Fornaess-Sibony. Secondly, we define recurrent domains for semigroups and provide a description of such domains under some conditions.

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arXiv2015

Dynamical properties of families of holomorphic mapping

In the first part of the thesis, we study some dynamical properties of skew products of Hénon maps of $\mbb C^2$ that are fibered over a compact metric space $M$. The problem reduces to understanding the dynamical behavior of the composition of a pseudo-random sequence of Hénon mappings. In analogy with the dynamics of the iterates of a single Hénon map, it is possible to construct fibered Green functions that satisfy suitable invariance properties and the corresponding stable and unstable currents. Further, it is shown that the successive pullbacks of a suitable current by the skew Hénon maps converge to a multiple of the fibered stable current. Second part of the thesis generalizes most of the above-mentioned results for a completely random sequence of Hénon maps. In addition, for this random system of Hénon maps, we introduce the notion of average Green functions and average Green currents which carry many typical features of the classical Green functions and Green currents. Third part consists of some results about the global dynamics of a special class of skew maps. To prove these results, we use the knowledge of dynamical behavior of pseudo-random sequence of Hénon maps widely. We show that the global skew map is strongly mixing for a class of invariant measures and also provide a lower bound on the topological entropy of the skew product. We conclude the thesis by studying another class of maps which are skew products of holomorphic endomorphisms of $\mbb P^k$ fibered over a compact base. We define the fibered Fatou components and show that they are pseudoconvex and Kobayashi hyperbolic.

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arXiv2015

Dynamical properties of families of holomorphic mappings

We study some dynamical properties of skew products of Hénon maps of $\mbb C^2$ that are fibered over a compact metric space $M$. The problem reduces to understanding the dynamical behavior of the composition of a pseudo-random sequence of Hénon mappings. In analogy with the dynamics of the iterates of a single Hénon map, it is possible to construct fibered Green's functions that satisfy suitable invariance properties and the corresponding stable and unstable currents. This analogy is carried forth in two ways: it is shown that the successive pullbacks of a suitable current by the skew Hénon maps converges to a multiple of the fibered stable current and secondly, this convergence result is used to obtain a lower bound on the topological entropy of the skew product in some special cases. The other class of maps that are studied are skew products of holomorphic endomorphisms of $\mbb P^k$ that are again fibered over a compact base. We define the fibered basins of attraction and show that they are pseudoconvex and Kobayashi hyperbolic.

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