Thurston obstructions and Ahlfors regular conformal dimension (Q950544)

The paper is concerned with Thurston obstructions and Ahlfors regular conformal dimension. Suppose that \(f: S^2 \to S^2\) is a postcritical finite expanding branched covering map of the sphere to itself. Associated to \(f\) is a canonical quasisymmetry class of Ahlfors regular metrics on the sphere in which the dynamics is (non-classically) conformal. The authors find a lower bound on the Hausdorff dimension of metrics in the canonical quasisymetry class in terms of the combinatorics of \(f\).