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 . 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