Fixed Fatou component classification

A periodic Fatou component of a rational map is an immediate attracting basin, an immediate parabolic basin, a Siegel disc, or a Herman ring. Attracting and parabolic basins capture critical orbits, while the boundaries of rotation domains lie in the closure of the postcritical set.

Every immediate basin of an attracting fixed point of a rational map contains a critical point. Otherwise the map on the basin would be an unbranched covering; lifting it to the unit disc would give an automorphism fixing a point, contradicting strict contraction at the attracting fixed point.

The postcritical set is the closure of the union of the forward orbits of all critical values.

A parabolic basin consists of Fatou components whose iterates approach a parabolic periodic orbit.

A parabolic basin consists of points whose iterates converge to a parabolic cycle along a specified attracting direction. Each connected basin component lies in the Fatou set, and its boundary lies in the Julia set.

For $P(z)=z-z^2$, the disc $\Delta =\{|z-1/2|<1/2\}$ corresponds under $w=1/z$ to $\Re w>1$. The transformed map is $T(w)=w+1+1/(w-1)$, so $\Re T(w)>\Re w+1$. Thus $P(\Delta )\subseteq \Delta$ and $|P^n(z)|<1/(n+1)$ there. The Fatou component $U$ containing the disc has $P^n\to 0$ locally uniformly by normality and the identity theorem. It is forward invariant. The point $1/4$ in the disc has the entire fiber $\{1/2\}$, so the Fatou component containing an entire fiber is completely invariant criterion gives $P^{-1}(U)=U$. Zero itself is a Julia point: a normal subsequential limit near zero would be zero by the disc limit, but every iterate has derivative one at zero, contradicting derivative convergence.

Every Fatou component of a rational map of degree at least two is eventually periodic. Thus the periodic-component classification accounts for the entire Fatou set.