Lattès maps and the interior of the bifurcation locus (Q2316713)

The main result of the paper is that any Lattès map of sufficiently high degree is in the closure of the interior of the bifurcation locus. In particular, every Lattès map has an iterate with such property. This gives a partial answer to a conjecture of \textit{R. Dujardin} [J. Éc. Polytech., Math. 4, 813--843 (2017; Zbl 1406.37041)] which states that every Lattès map on \({\mathbb{P}}^2(\mathbb{C})\) is contained in the closure of the interior of the bifurcation locus. \textit{F. Berteloot} et al. [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 51, No. 1, 215--262 (2018; Zbl 1454.32011)] generalized the notion of stability of rational mappings of a given degree on the Riemann sphere as introduced by \textit{R. Mane} et al. [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 16, 193--217 (1983; Zbl 0524.58025)] and \textit{M. Yu. Lyubich} [Teor. Funkts. Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 42, 72--91 (1984; Zbl 0572.30023)] to \(\mathbb{P}^2(\mathbb{C}).\) Unlike the one-dimensional case, in this case there exist open sets of bifurcations. To obtain such an open set, it suffices to create a persistent intersection between the postcritical set and the hyperbolic repeller In [J. Éc. Polytech., Math. 4, 813--843 (2017; Zbl 1406.37041)] \textit{R. Dujardin} gives two mechanisms that lead to such intersections: the first is to construct a topological manifold which has to intersect the postcritical set for homological reasons and the second one comes from IFS, namely is it possible to construct blenders, i.e., Cantor sets which are fat in a certain direction and therefore allow persistent intersections for sufficiently transverse manifolds. The paper follows the second mechanism. First a perturbation of the given Lattès map is needed in order to obtain a map with a robust bifurcation; at the same time the correcting IFS is constructed such that its limit map intersects a holomorphic curve contained in the postcritical set of the perturbed map.