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The Julia-Wolff-Carathéodory Theorem and Its Generalizations

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This note is a short introduction to the Julia-Wolff-Carathéodory theorem, and its generalizations in several complex variables, up to very recent results for infinitesimal generators of semigroups.

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Partially supported by the FIRB2012 grant “Differential Geometry and Geometric Function Theory”, and by the ANR project LAMBDA, ANR-13-BS01-0002.

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Raissy, J. (2015). The Julia-Wolff-Carathéodory Theorem and Its Generalizations. In: Bracci, F., Byun, J., Gaussier, H., Hirachi, K., Kim, KT., Shcherbina, N. (eds) Complex Analysis and Geometry. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 144. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55744-9_21

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