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Dessins d'enfants and Hubbard Trees

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that the absolute Galois group acts faithfully on the set of Hubbard trees. Hubbard trees are finite planar trees, equipped with self-maps, which classify postcritically finite polynomials as holomorphic dynamical systems on the complex plane. We establish an explicit relationship between certain Hubbard trees and the trees known as ``dessins d'enfant'' introduced by Grothendieck.

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@article{arxiv.math/9905170,
  title  = {Dessins d'enfants and Hubbard Trees},
  author = {Kevin Pilgrim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9905170},
  year   = {2007}
}

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27 pages, 8 PostScript figures

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