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Laplacians on the basilica Julia set

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2018-06-29 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider the basilica Julia set of the polynomial P(z)=z21P(z)=z^{2}-1 and construct all possible resistance (Dirichlet) forms, and the corresponding Laplacians, for which the topology in the effective resistance metric coincides with the usual topology. Then we concentrate on two particular cases. One is a self-similar harmonic structure, for which the energy renormalization factor is 2, the spectral dimension is log9/log6\log9/\log6, and we can compute all the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions by a spectral decimation method. The other is graph-directed self-similar under the map zP(z)z\mapsto P(z); it has energy renormalization factor 2\sqrt2 and spectral dimension 4/3, but the exact computation of the spectrum is difficult. The latter Dirichlet form and Laplacian are in a sense conformally invariant on the basilica Julia set.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.3248,
  title  = {Laplacians on the basilica Julia set},
  author = {Luke G. Rogers and Alexander Teplyaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3248},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

24 pages, one figure in separate eps file. Replaced the theorem that was removed in the second version, with a corrected proof. Corrected an error in the description of the energy forms (we are grateful to Jun Kigami for pointing out this error). Other minor changes

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