Renormalization and rigidity of polynomials of higher degree. (Q1411729)

Renormalization plays a very important role in the study of the dynamics of quadratic polynomials. In this paper, the author generalizes the renormalization to polynomials of any degree so that a lot of known properties still hold for the generalized renormalization. This generalization has the following form: Let \(f\) be a polynomial of degree \(d\) with connected Julia set and \(c_0\in C(f)\) is a critical point. \(f^n\) is called renormalizable about \(c_0\) if there exist open disks \(U,\,V\in\mathbb{C}\) such that: (1) \(c_0\in U\); (2) \((f^n, U,V)\) is a polynomial-like map with connected filled Julia set; (3) for each \(c\in C(f)\), there is at most one \(i\), \(0< i\leq n\), such that \(c\in f^i(U)\); (4) \(n> 1\) or \(U\not\supset C(f)\). A renormalization is a polynomial-like restriction \((f^n, U,V)\) as above. The main result of this paper is the following: A robust infinitely renormalizable polynomial carries no invariant line field on its Julia set.