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Rigidity of bounded-type Siegel polynomials

Dynamical Systems 2025-11-27 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study rigidity of polynomials of arbitrary degree in the presence of neutral dynamics. Specifically, we focus on {non-renormalizable} (in the sense of Douady and Hubbard) complex polynomials of degree d2d \geqslant 2 that possess a Siegel disk of bounded type rotation number. We refer to such maps as {atomic Siegel polynomials of bounded type}. In this setting, our main results are: (A) Atomic Siegel polynomials of bounded type have locally connected Julia sets; (B) these Julia sets are quasiconformally rigid, i.e., they do not support invariant line fields; (C) any two combinatorially equivalent atomic Siegel polynomials of bounded type coincide up to an affine change of coordinates. In particular, item (C) verifies the notorious {Combinatorial Rigidity Conjecture} for atomic Siegel polynomials of bounded type and arbitrary degree. By bringing neutral Siegel dynamics into the picture, we extend the celebrated higher-degree rigidity theorems of Avila--Kahn--Lyubich--Shen and Kozlovski--van Strien, which until now applied only in the Yoccoz setting, i.e., for finitely many times renormalizable polynomials without irrationally indifferent periodic points.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21246,
  title  = {Rigidity of bounded-type Siegel polynomials},
  author = {Kostiantyn Drach and Jonguk Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21246},
  year   = {2025}
}

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34 pages

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