Dynamics of cubic Siegel polynomials (Q1817760)

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Dynamics of cubic Siegel polynomials
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    Dynamics of cubic Siegel polynomials (English)
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    1 February 2000
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    This interesting paper deals with the one-parameter family of cubic polynomials \(P_c(z)= \lambda z(1-\frac 12 (1+\frac 1c)z+ \frac{1}{3c} z^2)\), where \(c\neq 0\), \(\lambda= e^{2i\pi\vartheta}\), and \(0< \vartheta<1\) is a given irrational number of Bryuno type. Every cubic polynomial of this form has a Siegel disk centered in the origin. The main result of this work is that when \(\vartheta\) is of bounded type, the boundary of the Siegel disk is a quasi-circle which contains one or both critical points of the cubic polynomial. Further, the parameter space \({\mathfrak P}^{cm}(\vartheta)\) of so-called critically marked cubic polynomials with a Siegel disk of a given rotation number \(\vartheta\) of Bryuno type is introduced. The \({\mathfrak P}^{cm}(\vartheta)\) is canonically isomorphic to the punctured plane \(\mathbb{C}^*\). As the analogy of the Mandelbrot set for the quadratic family is defined a subset \({\mathfrak M}(\vartheta)\subset {\mathfrak P}^{cm}(\vartheta)\), of all cubics with both critical orbits bounded. Finally the author proves that the set of all such cubics in \({\mathfrak P}^{cm}(\vartheta)\), which have both critical points on the boundary of their Siegel disk, is a Jordan curve in \({\mathfrak P}^{cm}(\vartheta)\).
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    Siegel disk
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    rotation number of Bryuno type
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    conformal capacity
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    Blaschke product
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    cubic polynomials
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    critical points
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    critically marked
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    Mandelbrot set
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