Square Sierpiński carpets and Lattès maps (Q2197669)
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Square Sierpiński carpets and Lattès maps (English)
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1 September 2020
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The authors are interested in the question of when two metric spaces are quasisymmetrically equivalent. In the paper under review, they study quasisymmetric homeomorphism of a standard square (planar) Sierpiński carpet \(S_p\). They prove that every quasisymmetric homeomorphism of \(S_p\), for \(p\geq 3\), is an isometry. This strengthens and completes earlier work by the authors [Ann. Math. (2) 177, No. 2, 591--643 (2013; Zbl 1269.30027)], where they proved that every quasisymmetry of \(S_3\) is an isometry (Theorem 1.1) and that the group of all of \(S_p\), \(p \geq 5\) and odd, is a finite dihedral group (Theorem 1.2). In the present paper they deal with this problem using new methods. Using the same methods, they show that a similar conclusion holds for quasisymmetries of the double of \(S_p\) across the outer peripheral circle. They also obtain applications in complex dynamics, proving in particular that no standard square carpet \(S_p\) is quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Julia set of a postcritically-finite rational map.
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quasisymmetry
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Sierpinski carpet
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Lattès map
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rigidity
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postcritically-finite rational map
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