Moduli space of cubic Newton maps (Q1678134)

The relationship between dynamics of the iteration of rational maps and the properties of their moduli spaces have been investigated since the work of \textit{C. McMullen} [Ann. Math. (2) 125, 467--493 (1987; Zbl 0634.30028)]. In this work the authors study the family of Newton maps of cubic polynomials \[ z\mapsto N_P(z)= z-\frac{P(z)}{P'(z)}, \] namely those rational maps whose iterations provide the Newton-Raphson method for finding the roots of polynomials \(P\). Although it is known that the Newton-Raphson method applied to a cubic polynomial does not generally converges to a root, the stability and bifurcations of the family of {all} Newton maps \(\{N_P; P\in \mathbb{C} [z],\;\deg(P)=3\}\) is not very well understood. For this family the authors prove that the boundary of the unique unbounded hyperbolic component is a Jordan arc and the boundaries of all other hyperbolic components are Jordan curves (an hyperbolic component is roughly speaking a connected component \(U\) of the space \(\{P\in \mathbb{C} [z],\;\deg(P)=3\}\) such that for each \(P\in U\) the map \(N_P(z)\) is hyperbolic).