A separation theorem for transcendental entire maps Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 110 (2015), no. 2, 291--324.

We generalize to the transcendental setting a theorem by Goldberg and Milnor saying that fixed rays landing together separate the remaining fixed points. We will prove an analogous theorem under the minimal assumptions that fixed rays exist and land. Among the corollaries, we obtain that there are no Cremer points on the boundaries of Fatou components, and that Fatou components are separated by pairs of periodic rays landing together. We also obtain that for parabolic periodic points there is at least one ray landing for each repelling petal.