A holomorphic periodic point is attracting when its return multiplier has modulus strictly less than one. For the return map , choose a local coordinate at the fixed point and a number strictly between and one. Taylor expansion gives on a sufficiently small disc. It maps that disc into itself, and successive returns converge uniformly to there. Composing with the finitely many intervening maps gives locally uniform convergence to the periodic orbit and places its basin in the Fatou set.
A holomorphic periodic point is superattracting if its return multiplier is zero. The return map then has local expansion with . This implies a strict contraction on a sufficiently small disc and rapid convergence of returns. Infinity is superattracting for every polynomial of degree at least two: the reciprocal-coordinate return has a zero of order equal to the polynomial degree.
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