My question is simple, and I hope somebody has an answer because I am a little confused. How come Tetration has multiple possible extensions to the complex domain that are analytic, but exponentiation only has one? Is it possible to have an alternative extension for exponentiation that is still analytic?
It would have a piecewise definition, the gamma variable is to distinguish it from regular exponentiation:
k amount of times if 
and then, for

and

Is it possible for
to be analytic? I'm sure it's possible to make alternative models, where
is defined arbitrarily, but is normal exponentiation the only analytic model?
thanks for reading this and I hope someone can clarify
As I think about it, I think this gets a little messy when we consider the laws of exponentiation:
because this would imply there is a number seperate from the square root that when squared returns a.
This type of idea could extend to multiplication as well, insofar as we could define a new multiplication:

and

We could also go to addition, and define a different addition:

and

This may let us keep our exponentiation laws, though altered:

we'd also have a similar law for multiplication maybe:
\,\oplus_\gamma\,(a\,\,\otimes_\gamma\,\, c) = a\,\,\otimes_\gamma\,\, (b\,\oplus_\gamma\,c))
I wonder, are these suggested different operators incapable of being analytic? Or are the normal addition and normal multiplication and normal exponentiation the only ones that work? Thanks for any help, James
It would have a piecewise definition, the gamma variable is to distinguish it from regular exponentiation:
and then, for
and
Is it possible for
thanks for reading this and I hope someone can clarify
As I think about it, I think this gets a little messy when we consider the laws of exponentiation:
This type of idea could extend to multiplication as well, insofar as we could define a new multiplication:
and
We could also go to addition, and define a different addition:
and
This may let us keep our exponentiation laws, though altered:
we'd also have a similar law for multiplication maybe:
I wonder, are these suggested different operators incapable of being analytic? Or are the normal addition and normal multiplication and normal exponentiation the only ones that work? Thanks for any help, James