Shadow trees of Mandelbrot sets
The topology and combinatorial structure of the Mandelbrot set (of degree d ≥ 2) can be studied using symbolic dynamics. Each parameter is mapped to a kneading sequence, or equivalently, an internal address; but not every such sequence is realized by a parameter in . Thus the abstract Mandelbrot set is a subspace of a larger, partially ordered symbol space, . In this paper we find an algorithm to construct “visible trees” from symbolic sequences which works whether or not the sequence is realized....