Semigroup-fication of univalent self-maps of the unit disc

Abstract

Let $f$ be a univalent self-map of the unit disc. We introduce a technique, that we call {\sl semigroup-fication}, which allows to construct a continuous semigroup $(\phi_t)$ of holomorphic self-maps of the unit disc whose time one map $\phi_1$ is, in a sense, very close to $f$. The semigrup-fication of $f$ is of the same type as $f$ (elliptic, hyperbolic, parabolic of positive step or parabolic of zero step) and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of boundary regular fixed points of $f$ with a given multiplier and the corresponding set for $\phi_1$. Moreover, in case $f$ (and hence $\phi_1$) has no interior fixed points, the slope of the orbits converging to the Denjoy-Wolff point is the same. The construction is based on holomorphic models, localization techniques and Gromov hyperbolicity. As an application of this construction, we prove that in the non-elliptic case, the orbits of $f$ converge non-tangentially to the Denjoy-Wolff point if and only if the Koenigs domain of $f$ is "almost symmetric" with respect to vertical lines.