75 research outputs found
Perfect subspaces of quadratic laminations
The combinatorial Mandelbrot set is a continuum in the plane, whose boundary
can be defined, up to a homeomorphism, as the quotient space of the unit circle
by an explicit equivalence relation. This equivalence relation was described by
Douady and, in different terms, by Thurston. Thurston used quadratic invariant
laminations as a major tool. As has been previously shown by the authors, the
combinatorial Mandelbrot set can be interpreted as a quotient of the space of
all limit quadratic invariant laminations. The topology in the space of
laminations is defined by the Hausdorff distance. In this paper, we describe
two similar quotients. In the first case, the identifications are the same but
the space is smaller than that taken for the Mandelbrot set. The result (the
quotient space) is obtained from the Mandelbrot set by "unpinching" the
transitions between adjacent hyperbolic components. In the second case, we do
not identify non-renormalizable laminations while identifying renormalizable
laminations according to which hyperbolic lamination they can be
"unrenormalised" to.Comment: 29 pages, 4 figure
Density of orbits in laminations and the space of critical portraits
Thurston introduced \si_d-invariant laminations (where \si_d(z) coincides
with z^d:\ucirc\to \ucirc, ). He defined \emph{wandering -gons} as
sets \T\subset \ucirc such that \si_d^n(\T) consists of distinct
points for all and the convex hulls of all the sets \si_d^n(\T) in
the plane are pairwise disjoint. Thurston proved that \si_2 has no wandering
-gons and posed the problem of their existence for \si_d,\, . Call
a lamination with wandering -gons a \emph{WT-lamination}. Denote the set of
cubic critical portraits by \A_3. A critical portrait, compatible with a
WT-lamination, is called a \emph{WT-critical portrait}; let \WT_3 be the set
of all of them. It was recently shown by the authors that cubic WT-laminations
exist and cubic WT-critical portraits, defining polynomials with
\emph{condense} orbits of vertices of order three in their dendritic Julia
sets, are dense and locally uncountable in \A_3 ( is
\emph{condense in } if intersects every subcontinuum of ). Here we
show that \WT_3 is a dense first category subset of \A_3. We also show that
(a) critical portraits, whose laminations have a condense orbit in the
topological Julia set, form a residual subset of \A_3, (b) the existence of a
condense orbit in the Julia set implies that is locally connected.Comment: 13 pages; accepted for publication in Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical System
Finitely Suslinian models for planar compacta with applications to Julia sets
A compactum X\subset \C is unshielded if it coincides with the boundary of
the unbounded component of \C\sm X. Call a compactum finitely Suslinian
if every collection of pairwise disjoint subcontinua of whose diameters are
bounded away from zero is finite. We show that any unshielded planar compactum
admits a topologically unique monotone map onto a
finitely Suslinian quotient such that any monotone map of onto a finitely
Suslinian quotient factors through . We call the pair (or,
more loosely, ) the finest finitely Suslinian model of . If f:\C\to
\C is a branched covering map and X \subset \C is a fully invariant
compactum, then the appropriate extension of monotonically
semiconjugates to a branched covering map g:\C\to \C which serves as a
model for . If is a polynomial and is its Julia set, we show that
(or ) can be defined on each component of individually as
the finest monotone map of onto a locally connected continuum.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Proceedings of the
American Mathematical Societ
Fixed points in non-invariant plane continua
If , with , is continuous and such that and
are mapped in opposite directions by , then has a fixed point in
. Suppose that is map and is a continuum. We
extend the above for certain continuous maps of dendrites
and for positively oriented maps with
the continuum not necessarily invariant. Then we show that in certain cases
a holomorphic map must have a fixed point in a
continuum so that either or exhibits rotation at
.Comment: 21 pages with corrected reference
Complementary components to the cubic Principal Hyperbolic Domain
We study the closure of the cubic Principal Hyperbolic Domain and its
intersection with the slice of the
space of all cubic polynomials with fixed point defined by the multiplier
at . We show that any bounded domain of
consists of -stable
polynomials with connected Julia sets and is either of \emph{Siegel
capture} type (then has an invariant Siegel domain
around and another Fatou domain such that is two-to-one and
for some ) or of \emph{queer} type (then at least one critical
point of belongs to , the set has positive
Lebesgue measure, and carries an invariant line field).Comment: 12 pages; one figure; to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. arXiv admin
note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1305.579
Topological polynomials with a simple core
We define the (dynamical) core of a topological polynomial (and the
associated lamination). This notion extends that of the core of a unimodal
interval map. Two explicit descriptions of the core are given: one related to
periodic objects and one related to critical objects. We describe all
laminations associated with quadratic and cubic topological polynomials with a
simple core (in the quadratic case, these correspond precisely to points on the
Main Cardioid of the Mandelbrot set).Comment: 47 pages, 8 figure
Laminations from the Main Cubioid
According to a recent paper \cite{bopt13}, polynomials from the closure
of the {\em Principal Hyperbolic Domain} of the
cubic connectedness locus have a few specific properties. The family
of all polynomials with these properties is called the \emph{Main
Cubioid}. In this paper we describe the set of laminations
which can be associated to polynomials from .Comment: 38 pages, 5 figures (in the new version a few typos have been
corrected and a few proofs have been expanded). To appear in Discrete and
Continuous Dynamical Systems. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1106.502
Laminational models for some spaces of polynomials of any degree
The so-called "pinched disk" model of the Mandelbrot set is due to A.~Douady,
J.~H.~Hubbard and W.~P.~Thurston. It can be described in the language of
geodesic laminations. The combinatorial model is the quotient space of the unit
disk under an equivalence relation that, loosely speaking, "pinches" the disk
in the plane (whence the name of the model). The significance of the model lies
in particular in the fact that this quotient is planar and therefore can be
easily visualized. The conjecture that the Mandelbrot set is actually
homeomorphic to this model is equivalent to the celebrated MLC conjecture
stating that the Mandelbrot set is locally connected.
For parameter spaces of higher degree polynomials no combinatorial model is
known. One possible reason may be that the higher degree analog of the MLC
conjecture is known to be false. We investigate to which extent a geodesic
lamination is determined by the location of its critical sets and when
different choices of critical sets lead to essentially the same lamination.
This yields models of various parameter spaces of laminations similar to the
"pinched disk" model of the Mandelbrot set.Comment: 98 pages, 18 figures; to appear in the Memoirs of the AM
The Main Cubioid
We discuss different analogs of the main cardioid in the parameter space of
cubic polynomials, and establish relationships between them.Comment: 25 page
The parameter space of cubic laminations with a fixed critical leaf
Thurston parameterized quadratic invariant laminations with a non-invariant
lamination, the quotient of which yields a combinatorial model for the
Mandelbrot set. As a step toward generalizing this construction to cubic
polynomials, we consider slices of the family of cubic invariant laminations
defined by a fixed critical leaf with non-periodic endpoints. We parameterize
each slice by a lamination just as in the quadratic case, relying on the
techniques of smart criticality previously developed by the authors.Comment: 40 pages; 2 figures; to appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical
System
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