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.

An escape time Sierpiński map is a rational map drawn from the McMullen family z ↦ zⁿ + λ/zⁿ with escaping critical orbits and Julia set homeomorphic to the Sierpiński curve continuum. We address the problem of characterizing postcritically finite escape time Sierpiński maps in a combinatorial way. To accomplish this, we define a combinatorial model given by a planar tree whose vertices come with a pair of combinatorial data that encodes the dynamics of critical orbits. We show...

We present a constructive proof of the fact that the set of algebraic Pfaff equations without algebraic solutions over the complex projective plane is dense in the set of all algebraic Pfaff equations of a given degree.

For the family of rational maps zⁿ + λ/zⁿ where n ≥ 3, it is known that there are infinitely many small copies of the Mandelbrot set that are buried in the parameter plane, i.e., they do not extend to the outer boundary of this set. For parameters lying in the main cardioids of these Mandelbrot sets, the corresponding Julia sets are always Sierpiński curves, and so they are all homeomorphic to one another. However, it is known that only those cardioids that are symmetrically located in the parameter...

The symmetric group Sn acts as a reflection group on CPn-2 (for n>=3).Associated with each of the (n2) transpositions in Sn is an involution on CPn-2 that pointwise fixes a hyperplane -the mirrors of the action. For each such action, there is a unique Sn-symmetric holomorphic map of degree n+1 whose critical set is precisely the collection of hyperplanes. Since the map preserves each reflecting hyperplane, the members of this family are critically-finite in a very strong sense. Considerations...

A Fatou-Julia decomposition of transversally holomorphic foliations of complex codimension one was given by Ghys, Gomez-Mont and Saludes. In this paper, we propose another decomposition in terms of normal families. Two decompositions have common properties as well as certain differences. It will be shown that the Fatou sets in our sense always contain the Fatou sets in the sense of Ghys, Gomez-Mont and Saludes and the inclusion is strict in some examples. This property is important when discussing...

We investigate an explicit holomorphic correspondence on the Riemann sphere with striking dynamical behaviour: the limit set is a fractal resembling the one-skeleton of a tetrahedron and on each component of the complement of this set the correspondence behaves like a Fuchsian group.

Let X be a germ of holomorphic vector field at the origin of Cn and vanishing there. We assume that X is a good perturbation of a “nondegenerate” singular completely integrable system. The latter is associated to a family of linear diagonal vector fields which is assumed to have nontrivial polynomial first integrals (they are generated by the so called “resonant monomials”). We show that X admits many invariant analytic subsets in a neighborhood of the origin. These are biholomorphic to the intersection...

We give a new proof of the following conjecture of Yoccoz:$$(\exists C\in ℝ)(\forall \theta \in ℝ\setminus \mathbb{Q})log\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)\le -Y\left(\theta \right)+C,$$where $Q_{\theta }\left(z\right)={\mathrm{e}}^{2\pi i\theta }z+z^2$, $\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is its Siegel disk if $Q_{\theta }$ is linearizable (or $\varnothing$ otherwise), $\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is the conformal radius of the Siegel disk of $Q_{\theta }$ (or $0$ if there is none) and $Y\left(\theta \right)$ is Yoccoz’s Brjuno function.In a former article we obtained a first proof based on the control of parabolic explosion. Here, we present a more elementary proof based on Yoccoz’s initial methods.We then extend this result to some new families of polynomials such as $z^d+c$ with $d\>2$. We also show that...

We give an intersection theoretic proof of M. Soares’ bounds for the Poincaré-Hopf index of an isolated singularity of a foliation of ${\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^n$.

In a recent preprint [B], Bergweiler relates the number of critical points contained in the immediate basin of a multiple fixed point β of a rational map f: ℙ¹ → ℙ¹, the number N of attracting petals and the residue ι(f,β) of the 1-form dz/(z-f(z)) at β. In this article, we present a different approach to the same problem, which we were developing independently at the same time. We apply our method to answer a question raised by Bergweiler. In particular, we prove that when there are only...

A decoration of the Mandelbrot set $M$ is a part of $M$ cut off by two external rays landing at some tip of a satellite copy of $M$ attached to the main cardioid. In this paper we consider infinitely renormalizable quadratic polynomials satisfying the decoration condition, which means that the combinatorics of the renormalization operators involved is selected from a finite family of decorations. For this class of maps we provea priori bounds. They imply local connectivity of the corresponding Julia sets...

We give an alternative proof of simultaneous linearization recently shown by T. Ueda, which connects the Schröder equation and the Abel equation analytically. In fact, we generalize Ueda's original result so that we may apply it to the parabolic fixed points with multiple petals. As an application, we show a continuity result on linearizing coordinates in complex dynamics.

Here we show that a Kupka component $K$ of a codimension 1 singular foliation $F$ of $\mathbf{C}{\mathbf{P}}^n,n\ge 6$ with $\mathrm{deg}\left(K\right)$ not a square is a complete intersection. The result implies the existence of a meromorphic first integral of $F$.

Here we show that a Kupka component $K$ of a codimension 1 singular foliation $F$ of $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^n,n\ge 6$ is a complete intersection. The result implies the existence of a meromorphic first integral of $F$. The result was previously known if $\mathrm{deg}\left(K\right)$ was assumed to be not a square.