inverse tetrations of complex numbers

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for the complex function $f_{(2)}(z)=z^z$,where in the complex plane does the inverse $z_{(2)}(f)$ not exist, same for inverse of functions $f_{(3)}(z)=z^{z^z}$ being $z_{(3)}(f)$ and so on

for instance $z_{(2)}(e^{-\pi /2})=i$ since $i^i=e^{-\pi /2}$

what is $z_{(2)}(i)$

what is $z_{(3)}(e^{-\pi /2})$

what is $z_{(2)}(1+i)$

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at "$z_{(2)}(i)$" and "$z_{(2)}(1+i)$" : (Pari/GP)

\\ input to Pari/GP         \\   output from Pari/GP
\\ -------------------------\\-----------------------------
t=exp(LambertW(log(I)))     \\ %666 = 1.36062 + 1.11944*I
t^t                         \\ %667 =           1.00000*I

t=exp(LambertW(log(1+I)))   \\ %668 = 1.39402 + 0.577732*I
t^t                         \\ %669 = 1.00000 + 1.00000*I                

For $t = z_{(3)}(x)$ I used my series-representation. The value $x=\exp(-\pi/2)$ seems too much out of radius of convergence, so I could not yet obtain a result. But for $x=\exp(\pi/2) \approx 4.81048$ I could obtain $t \approx 1.77053$ and $t^{t^t} \approx 4.81048 $ with error of about $-0.0000000045...$. Here I had to use a procedure for summing divergent series (because the found powerseries at this argument diverges strongly), which is an adaption of the Noerlund-summation with a manually adapted "order" for the summation, but likely the better known Borel-summation should have been possible too.