We construct an entire function in the Eremenko-Lyubich class B whose Julia set has only bounded path-components. This answers a question of Eremenko from 1989 in the negative.On the other hand, we show that for many functions in B, in particular those of finite order, every escaping point can be connected to ∞ by a curve of escaping points. This gives a partial positive answer to the aforementioned question of Eremenko, and answers a question of Fatou from 1926.

We study the dynamics of iterated cosine maps E: z → ae z + be −z , with a, b ∈ C \ {0}. We show that the points which converge to ∞ under iteration are organized in the form of rays and, as in the exponential family, every escaping point is either on one of these rays or the landing point of a unique ray. Thus we get a complete classification of the escaping points of the cosine family, confirming a conjecture of Eremenko in this case. We also get a particularly strong version of the "dimension paradox": the set of rays has Hausdorff dimension 1, while the set of points these rays land at has not only Hausdorff dimension 2 but infinite planar Lebesgue measure.

We construct an entire function in the Eremenko-Lyubich class B whose Julia set has only bounded path-components. This answers a question of Eremenko from 1989 in the negative.On the other hand, we show that for many functions in B, in particular those of finite order, every escaping point can be connected to ∞ by a curve of escaping points. This gives a partial positive answer to the aforementioned question of Eremenko, and answers a question of Fatou from 1926.