The boundary of the moduli space of quadratic rational maps

Details The boundary of the moduli space of quadratic rational maps The boundary of the moduli space of quadratic rational maps

2004-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0412438v1

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

38 pages, 3 figures

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Let $M_2$ be the space of quadratic rational maps $f:{\bf P}^1\to{\bf P}^1$, modulo the action by conjugation of the group of M\"obius transformations. In this paper a compactification $X$ of $M_2$ is defined, as a modification of Milnor's $\bar{M}_2\iso{\bf CP}^2$, by choosing representatives of a conjugacy class $[f]\in M_2$ such that the measure of maximal entropy of $f$ has conformal barycenter at the origin in ${\bf R}^3$, and taking the closure in the space of probability measures. It is shown that $X$ is the smallest compactification of $M_2$ such that all iterate maps $[f]\mapsto [f^n]\in M_{2^n}$ extend continuously to $X \to \bar{M}_{2^n}$, where $\bar{M}_d$ is the natural compactification of $M_d$ coming from geometric invariant theory.

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