Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2011
Let ℱn be families of entire functions, holomorphically parameterized by a complex manifold M. We consider those parameters in M that correspond to non-escaping hyperbolic functions, i.e. those maps f∈ℱn for which the postsingular set P(f) is a compact subset of the Fatou set ℱ(f) of f. We prove that if ℱn→ℱ∞ in the sense of a certain dynamically sensible metric, then every non-escaping hyperbolic component in the parameter space of ℱ∞ is a kernel of a sequence of non-escaping hyperbolic components in the parameter spaces of ℱn. Parameters belonging to such a kernel do not always correspond to hyperbolic functions in ℱ∞. Nevertheless, we show that these functions must be J-stable. Using quasiconformal equivalences, we are able to construct many examples of families to which our results can be applied.