It is well-known that the set of buried points of a Julia set of a rational function (also called the residual Julia set) is topologically “fat” in the sense that it is a dense $G_{\delta }$ if it is non-empty. We show that it is, in many cases, a full-measure subset of the Julia set with respect to conformal measure and the measure of maximal entropy. We also address Hausdorff dimension of buried points in the same cases, and discuss connectivity and topological dimension of the set of buried points. Finally,...

Little is known about the global topology of the Fatou set U(f) for holomorphic endomorphisms $f:ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\to ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, when k >1. Classical theory describes U(f) as the complement in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$ of the support of a dynamically defined closed positive (1,1) current. Given any closed positive (1,1) current S on $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, we give a definition of linking number between closed loops in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS$ and the current S. It has the property that if lk(γ,S) ≠ 0, then γ represents a non-trivial homology element in $H₁\left(ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS\right)$. As an application, we use these linking...

In this paper we study branched coverings of metrized, simplicial trees $F:T\to T$ which arise from polynomial maps $f:ℂ\to ℂ$ with disconnected Julia sets. We show that the collection of all such trees, up to scale, forms a contractible space $\mathbb{P}{T}_D$ compactifying the moduli space of polynomials of degree $D$; that $F$ records the asymptotic behavior of the multipliers of $f$; and that any meromorphic family of polynomials over ${\Delta }^{*}$ can be completed by a unique tree at its central fiber. In the cubic case we give a combinatorial...

We discuss the tree structures of the sublimbs of the Mandelbrot set M, using internal addresses of hyperbolic components. We find a counterexample to a conjecture by Eike Lau and Dierk Schleicher concerning topological equivalence between different trees of visible components, and give a new proof to a theorem of theirs concerning the periods of hyperbolic components in various trees.