Speiser class Julia sets with dimension near one

Abstract

For any $\delta >0$ we construct an entire function $f$ with three singular values whose Julia set has Hausdorff dimension at most $1=\delta$. Stallard proved that the dimension must be strictly larger than 1 whenever $f$ has a bounded singular set, but no examples with finite singular set and dimension strictly less than 2 were previously known.

53 pages, 25 figures