Combinatorial characterization of sub-hyperbolic rational maps

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.03.009MaRDI QIDQ1028354zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gaofei Zhang, Yunping Jiang

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3042

zbMATH Keywords

sub-hyperbolic rational mapsThurston type theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) Combinatorics and topology in relation with holomorphic dynamical systems (37F20)

Abstract: In 1980's, Thurston established a combinatorial characterization for post-critically finite rational maps. This criterion was then extended by Cui, Jiang, and Sullivan to sub-hyperbolic rational maps. The goal of this paper is to present a new but simpler proof of this result by adapting the argument in the proof of Thurston's Theorem.

Review text

Quoting the paper's abstract: ``In 1980's, Thurston established a combinatorial characterization for post-critically finite rational maps among post-critically finite branched coverings of the two sphere to itself. A completed proof was written by Douady and Hubbard in their paper [\textit{A. Douady} and \textit{J. H. Hubbard}, Acta Math. 171, No.~2, 263--297 (1993; Zbl 0806.30027)]. This criterion was then extended by Cui, Jiang, and Sullivan to sub-hyperbolic rational maps among sub-hyperbolic semi-rational branched coverings of the two sphere to itself. The goal of this paper is to present a new but simpler proof for the combinatorial characterization of sub-hyperbolic rational maps by adapting some arguments in the proof in Douady and Hubbard's paper. The main work in the paper is to establish that a sub-hyperbolic semi-rational branched covering \(f\) that has no Thurston obstructions is combinatorially and locally holomorphically equivalent to a rational map \(R\). (The converse is also true, and there is a certain uniqueness result about \(R\).) The argument is based on finding a unique fixed point of an operator \(\sigma_f\) on a Teichmüller space \(T_f\) associated with \(f\). It is shown that the lack of Thurston obstructions implies a type of bounded geometry, which in turn implies the required fixed point property.

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