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Lemon limbs of the cubic connectedness locus

Dynamical Systems 2025-09-18 v2

Abstract

We describe a primary limb structure in the connectedness locus of complex cubic polynomials, where the limbs are indexed by the periodic points of the doubling map t2t (modZ)t \mapsto 2t \ (\operatorname{mod} {\mathbb Z}). The main renormalization locus in each limb is parametrized by the product of a pair of (punctured) Mandelbrot sets. This parametrization is the inverse of the straightening map and can be thought of as a tuning operation that manufactures a unique cubic of a given combinatorics from a pair of quadratic hybrid classes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.19081,
  title  = {Lemon limbs of the cubic connectedness locus},
  author = {Carsten Lunde Petersen and Saeed Zakeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19081},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

62 pages, 16 figures. This version features a substantially extended introduction and updated references

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