Expanding Thurston maps

DOI10.1090/SURV/225MaRDI QIDQ4601471zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 16 January 2018

Published in Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3647

zbMATH Keywords

cell decompositionscombinatoricsexpansionisotopiesLattés mapsquasiconformal geometryThurston mapsvisual metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in metric spaces (30L10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Dynamical systems over complex numbers (37Fxx) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of Thurston maps under iteration. These are branched covering maps $f$ of 2-spheres $S^2$ with a finite set $mathoppost(f)$ of postcritical points. We also assume that the maps are expanding in a suitable sense. Every expanding Thurston map $f:S^{2}o{S}^2$ gives rise to a type of fractal geometry on the underlying sphere $S^2$. This geometry is represented by a class of emph{visual metrics} $varrho$ that are associated with the map. Many dynamical properties of the map are encoded in the geometry of the corresponding {em visual sphere}, meaning $S^2$ equipped with a visual metric $varrho$. For example, we will see that an expanding Thurston map is topologically conjugate to a rational map if and only if $(S^2,varrho)$ is quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Riemann sphere $widehatmathbfC$. We also obtain existence and uniqueness results for $f$-invariant Jordan curves $mathcalCsubset{S}^2$ containing the set $mathoppost(f)$. Furthermore, we obtain several characterizations of Latt`{e}s maps.

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