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Renormalizations and Wandering Jordan Curves of Rational Maps

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We realize a dynamical decomposition for a post-critically finite rational map which admits a combinatorial decomposition. We split the Riemann sphere into two completely invariant subsets. One is a subset of the Julia set consisting of uncountably many Jordan curve components. Most of them are wandering. The other consists of components that are pullbacks of finitely many renormalizations, together with possibly uncountably many points. The quotient action on the decomposed pieces is encoded by a dendrite dynamical system. We also introduce a surgery procedure to produce post-critically finite rational maps with wandering Jordan curves and prescribed renormalizations.

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  1. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China.

    Guizhen Cui & Wenjuan Peng

  2. LAREMA, UMR 6093 CNRS, Université d’Angers, 2 bd Lavoisier, 49045, Angers, France

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Cui, G., Peng, W. & Tan, L. Renormalizations and Wandering Jordan Curves of Rational Maps. Commun. Math. Phys. 344, 67–115 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2623-x

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