Dessins d'enfants and hubbard trees
An algebraic formulation of Thurston’s characterization of rational functions
Following Douady-Hubbard and Bartholdi-Nekrashevych, we give an algebraic formulation of Thurston’s characterization of rational functions. The techniques developed are applied to the analysis of the dynamics on the set of free homotopy classes of simple closed curves induced by a rational function. The resulting finiteness results yield new information on the global dynamics of the pullback map on Teichmüller space used in the proof of the characterization theorem.
Bounded geometry of quadrilaterals and variation of multipliers for rational maps
Let Q be the unit square in the plane and h: Q → h(Q) a quasiconformal map. When h is conformal off a certain self-similar set, the modulus of h(Q) is bounded independent of h. We apply this observation to give explicit estimates for the variation of multipliers of repelling fixed points under a "spinning" quasiconformal deformation of a particular cubic polynomial.
Dynamic classification of escape time Sierpiński curve Julia sets
For n ≥ 2, the family of rational maps contains a countably infinite set of parameter values for which all critical orbits eventually land after some number κ of iterations on the point at infinity. The Julia sets of such maps are Sierpiński curves if κ ≥ 3. We show that two such maps are topologically conjugate on their Julia sets if and only if they are Möbius or anti-Möbius conjugate, and we give a precise count of the number of topological conjugacy classes as a function of n and κ.
Questions about Polynomial Matings
We survey known results about polynomial mating, and pose some open problems.
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