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From rubber bands to rational maps: A research report
This research report outlines work, partially joint with Jeremy Kahn and
Kevin Pilgrim, which gives parallel theories of elastic graphs and conformal
surfaces with boundary. One one hand, this lets us tell when one rubber band
network is looser than another, and on the other hand tell when one conformal
surface embeds in another.
We apply this to give a new characterization of hyperbolic critically finite
rational maps among branched self-coverings of the sphere, by a positive
criterion: a branched covering is equivalent to a hyperbolic rational map if
and only if there is an elastic graph with a particular "self-embedding"
property. This complements the earlier negative criterion of W. Thurston.Comment: 52 pages, numerous figures. v2: New example
A Combinatorial classification of postcritically fixed Newton maps
We give a combinatorial classification for the class of postcritically fixed
Newton maps of polynomials as dynamical systems. This lays the foundation for
classification results of more general classes of Newton maps.
A fundamental ingredient is the proof that for every Newton map
(postcritically finite or not) every connected component of the basin of an
attracting fixed point can be connected to through a finite chain of
such components.Comment: 37 pages, 5 figures, published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical
Systems (2018). This is the final author file before publication. Text
overlap with earlier arxiv file observed by arxiv system relates to an
earlier version that was erroneously uploaded separately. arXiv admin note:
text overlap with arXiv:math/070117
Domino tilings and related models: space of configurations of domains with holes
We first prove that the set of domino tilings of a fixed finite figure is a
distributive lattice, even in the case when the figure has holes. We then give
a geometrical interpretation of the order given by this lattice, using (not
necessarily local) transformations called {\em flips}.
This study allows us to formulate an exhaustive generation algorithm and a
uniform random sampling algorithm.
We finally extend these results to other types of tilings (calisson tilings,
tilings with bicolored Wang tiles).Comment: 17 pages, 11 figure
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