Bers slices in families of univalent maps (Q2114170)

Kleinian groups and rational dynamics share various common features. In the paper under review dynamical relations between limit sets of Kleinian groups and Julia sets of rational maps are explored. It is shown that all Kleinian reflection groups arising from finite circle packing satisfying a necklace condition can be mated with the anti-polynomial \(\bar{z}^d\). The simplest example of a necklace Kleinian reflection group is given by reflections in the sides of a regular ideal \((d + 1)\)-gon in the unit disk \(\mathbb{D}\), this group is denoted by \(\Gamma_{d+1}\). All necklace groups (generated by \(d + 1\) circular reflections) can be obtained by taking the closure of suitable quasiconformal deformations of \(\Gamma_{d+1}\) in an appropriate topology. The Bers compactification of the Bers slice is denoted by \(\overline{\beta(\Gamma_{d+1})}\). Let \(\Sigma^*_d\) be the space of univalent rational maps. The first main result is Theorem A: For each \(f \in \Sigma^{*}_d\), there exists a unique \(\Gamma_f \in \overline{\beta(\Gamma_{d+1})}\) such that the Schwarz reflection map \(\sigma_f\) is a conformal mating of \(\Gamma_f\) with \(z \mapsto \bar{z}^d\); the map \(\Sigma_d^* \rightarrow \overline{\beta(\Gamma_{d+1})}\) defined by \(f \mapsto \Gamma_f\) is a homeomorphism. The definition of the map and the proof of being a homeomorphism are given in Section 3. The conformal mating statement is proved in Section 4. The authors mention and describe a geometric interpretation of Theorem A. The authors are also interested in laminations that appear in the study of Kleinian groups and polynomial dynamics. Let \(\Lambda(\Gamma)\) be the limit set of the group \(\Gamma\), \(\rho(\Gamma)\) its reflection map and let us denote by \(\mathcal{J}(p)\) the Julia set of a holomorphic or anti-holomorphic polynomial \(p:\widehat{\mathbb{C}}\rightarrow \widehat{\mathbb{C}}\). The second main result is Theorem B: Let \(\Gamma \in \overline{\beta(\Gamma_{d+1})}\). Then there exists a critically fixed anti-polynomial \(p\) of degree \(d\) such that the dynamical systems \( \rho\Gamma : \Lambda(\Gamma) \rightarrow \Lambda(\Gamma),\) and \(p : \mathcal{J}(p) \rightarrow \mathcal{J}(p)\) are topologically conjugate. Theorem B is proved in Section 5 using the theory of Hubbard trees for anti-holomorphic polynomials.