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Quasisymmetric conjugacy between quadratic dynamics and iterated function systems

Dynamical Systems 2011-07-20 v2

Abstract

We consider linear iterated function systems (IFS) with a constant contraction ratio in the plane for which the "overlap set" \Ok\Ok is finite, and which are "invertible" on the attractor AA, the sense that there is a continuous surjection q:AAq: A\to A whose inverse branches are the contractions of the IFS. The overlap set is the critical set in the sense that qq is not a local homeomorphism precisely at \Ok\Ok. We suppose also that there is a rational function pp with the Julia set JJ such that (A,q)(A,q) and (J,p)(J,p) are conjugate. We prove that if AA has bounded turning and pp has no parabolic cycles, then the conjugacy is quasisymmetric. This result is applied to some specific examples including an uncountable family. Our main focus is on the family of IFS {λz,λz+1}\{\lambda z,\lambda z+1\} where λ\lambda is a complex parameter in the unit disk, such that its attractor A\lamA_\lam is a dendrite, which happens whenever \Ok\Ok is a singleton. C. Bandt observed that a simple modification of such an IFS (without changing the attractor) is invertible and gives rise to a quadratic-like map q\lamq_\lam on A\lamA_\lam. If the IFS is post-critically finite, then a result of A. Kameyama shows that there is a quadratic map pc(z)=z2+cp_c(z)=z^2+c, with the Julia set JcJ_c such that (A\lam,q\lam)(A_\lam,q_\lam) and (Jc,pc)(J_c,p_c) are conjugate. We prove that this conjugacy is quasisymmetric and obtain partial results in the general (not post-critically finite) case.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3952,
  title  = {Quasisymmetric conjugacy between quadratic dynamics and iterated function systems},
  author = {Kemal Ilgar Eroğlu and Steffen Rohde and Boris Solomyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3952},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures; minor corrections in Section 2; accepted for publication in Ergodic Th. & Dynamical Systems

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