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Completely invariant components of the Fatou sets of meromorphic maps are discussed. Positive answers are given to Baker’s and Bergweiler’s problems that such components are the only Fatou components for certain classes of meromorphic maps.

Surface-related-multiple wavefields constitute redundant information in conventional migration and can often be difficult to attenuate. However, when used for migration, multiple wavefields can improve subsurface illumination. Unfortunately, the process of imaging using multiples involves the management of crosstalk, which largely restricts its application. Crosstalk causes phantom images formed by spurious correlation of unrelated events in a migration process. These events can be unrelated orders of multiples in the source and receiver wavefields; they can also be one event associated with a reflector in the source wavefield and another event generated by a different reflector in the receiver wavefield. We have first examined crosstalk by explicitly investigating its generation mechanisms in a migration process and classifying it into different categories based on causality. Following this analysis, crosstalk can be predicted in a migration process and subtracted in the image domain; however, this method is usually difficult to apply due to the complexity of wavefield separation and adaptive subtraction. Furthermore, we develop different algorithms to attenuate the crosstalk, including a deconvolution imaging condition, a least-squares migration (LSM) method, and an advanced algorithm combining LSM with a deconvolution imaging condition. We evaluate these different strategies with synthetic examples. A deconvolution imaging condition can attenuate some crosstalk, but it is less effective at suppressing strong coherent crosstalk events. However, the LSM method can fundamentally address the crosstalk issue, and this approach is further optimized when combined with a deconvolution imaging condition.

Let$f$be meromorphic in the open unit disc$D$and strongly normal; that is, $$(1 - |z|^2 )f^\# (z) \to 0as|z| \to 1,$$

Let$f$be a one-to-one analytic function in the unit disc with$f′$(0)=1. We prove sharp estimates for certain Taylor coefficients of the functions$(f′)$^{$p$}, where$p$<0. The proof is similar to de Branges’ proof of Bieberbach’s conjecture, and thus relies on Löwner’s equation. A special case leads to a generalization of the usual estimate for the Schwarzian derivative of$f$. We use this to improve known estimates for integral means of the functions |$f′$|^{$p$}for integers$p$⪯−2.