Symmetries of fractals revisited (Q1914968): Difference between revisions

The paper under review deals mainly with the same problem as the paper by \textit{X. Sheng} and \textit{M. J. Spurr} [ibid. 18, No. 1, 35-42 (1996; reviewed above)], namely the symmetries of the Mandelbrot sets \(M(k)\) (for notations see the review above) and their associated Julia sets. The authors derive the same result, but by a slightly different and easier method: They give the set \(FL(k)\) for \(k\geq 3\) by a classical cycloid construction and use the well-known theorem that the attractive fixpoint of \(P_{c, k}\) for \(c\in FL(k)\) has to attract the only ``free'' critical point 0. Further, the authors deal with the following problem: There is a well-known dynamical relation between the \(P_{c, k}\) and the functions \(g_{k, \lambda}(z)= \lambda(1+ z/k)^k\) for \(\lambda= k c^{k- 1}\). Obviously the \(g_{k, \lambda}\) approximate the function \(g_{\infty, \lambda}(z)= \lambda e^z\) for \(k\to \infty\). Define the corresponding Mandelbrot set as the \(\lambda\in \mathbb{C}\), such that \(\{g^n_{\infty, \lambda}(0)\}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\) remains bounded. Is this set in some sense a kind of limit set for the Mandelbrot sets of the \(g_{k, \lambda}\)?.