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HERMAN RINGS AND ARNOLD DISKS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2005

XAVIER BUFF
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Emile Picard, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, Francebuff@picard.ups-tlse.fr
NÚRIA FAGELLA
Affiliation:
Departimento de Matematica Aplicada i Analisi, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran via 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: fagella@maia.ub.es
LUKAS GEYER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Montana State University, PO Box 172400, Bozeman, MT 59717-2400, USAgeyer@math.montana.edu
CHRISTIAN HENRIKSEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark, Matematiktorvet, Building 303, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmarkchristian.henriksen@mat.dtu.dk
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Abstract

For $(\l,a)\in \matbb{C}^*\times \mathbb{C}$, let $f_{\lambda,a}$ be the rational map defined by $f_{\lambda,a}(z) \,{=}\, \lambda z^2 {(az+1)/(z+a)}$. If $\alpha\in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ is a Brjuno number, we let ${\cal D}_\alpha$ be the set of parameters $(\lambda,a)$ such that $f_{\lambda,a}$ has a fixed Herman ring with rotation number $\alpha$ (we consider that $({\it e}^{2i\pi\alpha}{,}0)\,{\in}\, {\cal D}_\alpha$). Results obtained by McMullen and Sullivan imply that, for any $g\in {\cal D}_\alpha$, the connected component of ${\cal D}_\alpha\cap (\mathbb{C}^*\times(\mathbb{C}\setminus \{0,1\}))$ that contains g is isomorphic to a punctured disk.

We show that there is a holomorphic injection $\cal{F}_\alpha\,{:}\,\mathbb{D}\,{\longrightarrow}\, {\cal D}_\alpha$ such that $\cal{F}_\alpha(0) = ({\it e}^{2i\pi \alpha},0)$ and $\cal{F}_\alpha'(0)=(0,r_\alpha),$ where $r_\alpha$ is the conformal radius at 0 of the Siegel disk of the quadratic polynomial $z\longmapsto {\it e}^{2i\pi \alpha}z(1+z)$.

As a consequence, we show that for $a\in (0,1/3)$, if $f_{\l,a}$ has a fixed Herman ring with rotation number $\alpha$ and if $m_a$ is the modulus of the Herman ring, then, as $a\,{\rightarrow}\,0$, we have ${\it e}^{\pi m_a} \,{=} ({r_\alpha}/{a}) + {\cal O}(a).$

We finally explain how to adapt the results to the complex standard family $z\,{\longmapsto} \lambda z {\it e}^{({a}/{2})(z-1/z)}$.

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The London Mathematical Society 2005

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