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Title

Iterations of rational functions: which hyperbolic components contain polynomials?

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Affiliations

  1. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

Let Hd be the set of all rational maps of degree d ≥ 2 on the Riemann sphere, expanding on their Julia set. We prove that if fHd and all, or all but one, critical points (or values) are in the basin of immediate attraction to an attracting fixed point then there exists a polynomial in the component H(f) of Hd containing f. If all critical points are in the basin of immediate attraction to an attracting fixed point or a parabolic fixed point then f restricted to the Julia set is conjugate to the shift on the one-sided shift space of d symbols. We give exotic} examples of maps of an arbitrary degree d with a non-simply connected completely invariant basin of attraction and arbitrary number k ≥ 2 of critical points in the basin. For such a map fHd with k

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Additional information

http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm149/fm14921.pdf

Pages:
95-118
Main language of publication
English
Received
1994-04-07
Accepted
1995-07-14
Published
1996
Exact and natural sciences