A classification of bicritical rational maps with a pair of period two superattracting cycles

Adam Epstein[1]; Thomas Sharland[2]

  • [1] University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
  • [2] State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques (2012)

  • Volume: 21, Issue: S5, page 907-934
  • ISSN: 0240-2963

Abstract

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We give a Thurston classification of those bicritical rational maps which have two period two superattracting cycles. We also show that all such maps are constructed by the mating of two unicritical degree d polynomials.

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Epstein, Adam, and Sharland, Thomas. "A classification of bicritical rational maps with a pair of period two superattracting cycles." Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques 21.S5 (2012): 907-934. <http://eudml.org/doc/251015>.

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affiliation = {University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA},
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language = {eng},
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