The shape of Thurston's master teapot (Q2217535)

Let \(\mathcal{F}^{cp}\) be the family of critically periodic unimodal continuous maps of the interval. Thurston's Master Teapot, denoted by \(\Upsilon_{2}^{cp}\), is defined as the closure of \(\{(z,\lambda)\} \subseteq \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}\) where \(\lambda\) is the growth rate of some map in \(\mathcal{F}^{cp}\) and \(z\) is a Galois conjugate of \(\lambda\). One of the authors' main results is that \((z,\lambda) \in \Upsilon_{2}^{cp}\) implies \(\{z\} \times [\lambda,2] \subseteq \Upsilon_{2}^{cp}\), which is a type of vertical persistence. The proof uses a combinatorial approach of \textit{G. Tiozzo} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2020, No. 2, 607--640 (2020; Zbl 1444.37015)]. The authors also prove that the Master Teapot is connected and contains the unit cylinder. Furthermore they show that the Thurston set, which is the projection of \(\Upsilon_{2}^{cp}\) onto \(\mathbb{C}\), is not equal to the Thurston set for postcritically finite tent maps. A gap theorem is proven for the Thurston set.