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Accumulation set of critical points of the multipliers in the quadratic family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2022

TANYA FIRSOVA
Affiliation:
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA (e-mail: tanyaf@math.ksu.edu)
IGORS GORBOVICKIS*
Affiliation:
Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Abstract

A parameter $c_{0}\in {\mathbb {C}}$ in the family of quadratic polynomials $f_{c}(z)=z^{2}+c$ is a critical point of a period n multiplier if the map $f_{c_{0}}$ has a periodic orbit of period n, whose multiplier, viewed as a locally analytic function of c, has a vanishing derivative at $c=c_{0}$ . We study the accumulation set ${\mathcal X}$ of the critical points of the multipliers as $n\to \infty $ . This study complements the equidistribution result for the critical points of the multipliers that was previously obtained by the authors. In particular, in the current paper, we prove that the accumulation set ${\mathcal X}$ is bounded, connected, and contains the Mandelbrot set as a proper subset. We also provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a parameter outside of the Mandelbrot set to be contained in the accumulation set ${\mathcal X}$ and show that this condition is satisfied for an open set of parameters. Our condition is similar in flavor to one of the conditions that define the Mandelbrot set. As an application, we get that the function that sends c to the Hausdorff dimension of $f_{c}$ does not have critical points outside of the accumulation set ${\mathcal X}$ .

Type
Original Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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