The Siciak extremal function establishes an important link between polynomial approximation in several variables and pluripotential theory. This yields its numerous applications in complex and real analysis. Some of them can be found on a rich list drawn up by Klimek in his well-known monograph "Pluripotential Theory". The purpose of this paper is to supplement it by applications in constructive function theory.

It is a survey article showing how an enhanced version of the Banach contraction principle can lead to generalizations of attractors of iterated function systems and to Julia type sets.

We are interested in deformations of Baker domains by a pinching process in curves. In this paper we deform the Fatou function $F\left(z\right)=z+1+e^{-z}$, depending on the curves selected, to any map of the form $F_{p/q}\left(z\right)=z+e^{-z}+2\pi ip/q$, p/q a rational number. This process deforms a function with a doubly parabolic Baker domain into a function with an infinite number of doubly parabolic periodic Baker domains if p = 0, otherwise to a function with wandering domains. Finally, we show that certain attracting domains can be deformed by a pinching...

A monomial self-map $f$ on a complex toric variety is said to be $k$-stable if the action induced on the $2k$-cohomology is compatible with iteration. We show that under suitable conditions on the eigenvalues of the matrix of exponents of $f$, we can find a toric model with at worst quotient singularities where $f$ is $k$-stable. If $f$ is replaced by an iterate one can find a $k$-stable model as soon as the dynamical degrees ${\lambda }_k$ of $f$ satisfy ${\lambda }_k^2\>{\lambda }_{k-1}{\lambda }_{k+1}$. On the other hand, we give examples of monomial maps $f$, where this condition...

We show that, for the family of functions $F_{\lambda }\left(z\right)=zⁿ+\lambda /zⁿ$ where n ≥ 3 and λ ∈ ℂ, there is a unique McMullen domain in parameter space. A McMullen domain is a region where the Julia set of $F_{\lambda }$ is homeomorphic to a Cantor set of circles. We also prove that this McMullen domain is a simply connected region in the plane that is bounded by a simple closed curve.

Nous construisons des mesures selles (dans un sens faible) pour les endomorphismes holomorphes de ${\mathbb{P}}^2\left(ℂ\right)$.

Nous étudions les propriétés arithmétiques des itérés de certains automorphismes polynomiaux affines. Nous traitons des questions concernant les points périodiques et non-périodiques, en particulier nous comptons les points rationnels dans les orbites des points non-périodiques. Nous traitons le cas des automorphismes réguliers et triangulaires. Nous achevons de répondre aux questions en dimension 2 et montrons que la situation est nettement plus compliquée en dimension supérieure.

On s’intéresse aux difféomorphismes birationnels des surfaces algébriques réelles qui possèdent une dynamique réelle simple et une dynamique complexe riche. On donne un exemple d’une telle transformation sur ${\mathbb{P}}^1\times {\mathbb{P}}^1$, mais on montre qu’une telle situation est exceptionnelle et impose des conditions fortes à la fois sur la topologie du lieu réel et sur la dynamique réelle.

We try to find a geometric interpretation of the wedge product of positive closed laminar currents in C2. We say such a wedge product is geometric if it is given by intersecting the disks filling up the currents. Uniformly laminar currents do always intersect geometrically in this sense. We also introduce a class of strongly approximable laminar currents, natural from the dynamical point of view, and prove that such currents intersect geometrically provided they have continuous potentials.