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Unmating of rational maps, sufficient criteria and examples

Complex Variables 2015-11-10 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Douady and Hubbard introduced the operation of mating of polynomials. This identifies two filled Julia sets and the dynamics on them via external rays. In many cases one obtains a rational map. Here the opposite question is tackled. Namely we ask when a given (postcritically finite) rational map ff arises as a mating. A sufficient condition when this is possible is given. If this condition is satisfied, we present a simple explicit algorithm to unmate the rational map. This means we decompose ff into polynomials, that when mated yield ff. Several examples of unmatings are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6784,
  title  = {Unmating of rational maps, sufficient criteria and examples},
  author = {Daniel Meyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6784},
  year   = {2015}
}

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35 pages, 8 figures