On Fibers and Local Connectivity of Compact Sets in C

Details On Fibers and Local Connectivity of Compact Sets in C On Fibers and Local Connectivity of Compact Sets in C

1999-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/9902154v1

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

26 pages, 2 postscript figures

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A frequent problem in holomorphic dynamics is to prove local connectivity of Julia sets and of many points of the Mandelbrot set; local connectivity has many interesting implications. The intention of this paper is to present a new point of view for this problem: we introduce fibers of these sets, and the goal becomes to show that fibers are ``trivial'', i.e. they consist of single points. The idea is to show ``shrinking of puzzle pieces'' without using specific puzzles. This implies local connectivity at these points, but triviality of fibers is a somewhat stronger property than local connectivity. Local connectivity proofs in holomorphic dynamics often actually yield that fibers are trivial, and this extra knowledge is sometimes useful. Since we believe that fibers may be useful in further situations, we discuss their properties for arbitrary compact connected and full sets in the complex plane. This allows to use them for connected filled-in Julia sets of polynomials, and polynomials of the form $z^d+c$ have the property that the impression of any dynamic ray at a rational angle is a single point. An appendix reviews known topological properties of compact, connected and full sets in the plane. The definition of fibers grew out of a new brief proof that the Mandelbrot set is locally connected at every Misiurewicz point and at every point on the boundary of a hyperbolic component. This proof works also for ``Multibrot sets'', which are the higher degree cousins of the Mandelbrot set. These sets are discussed in a self-contained sequel (IMS Preprint 1998/13a). Finally, we relate triviality of fibers to tuning and renormalization in IMS Preprint 1998/13b.

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