© Hindawi Publishing Corp. FATOU MAPS IN Pn DYNAMICS

We study the dynamics of a holomorphic self-map f of complex projective space of degree d> 1 by utilizing the notion of a Fatou map, introduced originally by Ueda (1997) and independently by the author (2000). A Fatou map is intuitively like an analytic subvariety on which the dynamics of f are a normal family (such as a local stable manifold of a hyperbolic periodic point). We show that global stable manifolds of hyperbolic fixed points are given by Fatou maps. We further show that they are necessarily Kobayashi hyperbolic and are always ramified by f (and therefore any hyperbolic periodic point attracts a point of the critical set of f). We also show that Fatou components are hyperbolically embedded in Pn and that a Fatou component which is attracted to a taut subset of itself is necessarily taut. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 37F50, 37F10, 32H50. 1. Introduction. All complex spaces used in this note are assumed to be reduced and to have a countable basis of open sets. Given a holomorphic self-map f: Pn → Pn of degree d> 1 we present the following definition