Regularity of infinite exponentials

A. P. Bulanov

Izvestiya. Mathematics , Tome 62 (1998) no. 5, pp. 901-928.

Résumé

If a sequence $\{a_k\}_{k=0}^{\infty}$ is such that $a_k\ne 0$, $k=0,1,2,\dots$, and $\varlimsup_{n\to\infty}|a_n|=\bar a\infty$, then $$ f(z)=\lim_{n\to\infty}a_0z^{a_1z^{a_2z\cdots^{a_{n-1}z^{a_n}}}} $$ is regular in a domain $U$ such that $D\cap e^K\subset U$, where $D=\{z\colon|\arg z|\pi\}$ and $e^K$ is the image of $K=\biggl\{w:|w|\dfrac {1}{e\bar a}\biggr\}$ under the map $z=e^w$.

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