Puiseux series dynamics of quadratic rational maps (Q466096)

Let \(\mathbb{C}((\tau))\) be the field of formal Laurent series endowed with the non-Archimedean valuation \[ \Big \| \sum_{n \geq n_0} c_n \tau^n \Big \|_0 = \exp(-\min\{ n \in \mathbb{Z} \, | \, c_n \neq 0\}), \] and \(\mathbb{L}\) the completion of the algebraic closure \(\mathbb{C} \langle \langle \tau \rangle \rangle\) of \(\mathbb{C}((\tau))\). In this paper, the author studies the iteration of quadratic rational maps with coefficients in \(\mathbb{L}\) by studying the orbits of points in their Julia and Fatou sets. To study the dynamics of maps on \(\mathbb{P}^{1}_\mathbb{L}\), this line is embedded as the dense subset of the classical rigid points in the compact arcwise connected Berkovich line \(\mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L}\) and one proceeds to study maps \(\varphi : \mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L} \longrightarrow \mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L}\). The complement \(\mathbb{H}=\mathbb{H}_\mathbb{L}=\mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L} \setminus \mathbb{P}^{1}_\mathbb{L}\) admits a hyperbolic metric and has the structure of a \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree. The intersection of the Julia set of a map with \(\mathbb{H}\), \(J(\varphi) \cap \mathbb{H}\), is referred as the non-rigid Julia set. The description of the dynamics of quadratic maps \(\varphi : \mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L} \longrightarrow \mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L}\) is organized then according to the character and number of the periodic orbits in the non-rigid Julia set. In Section 1, the basic facts about \(\mathbb{L}\) and \(\mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L}\) are established. Section 2 is devoted to the basics of iteration of rational maps on \(\mathbb{P}^{1,an}_\mathbb{L}\). In Section 3, the author presents a first rough classification of maps according to the Julia periodic orbits in \(\mathbb{H}\) and the number and geometry of the fixed Rivera domains. Section 4 contains a detailed description of the Julia and Fatou dynamics for maps without a repelling periodic orbit in \(J(\varphi) \cap \mathbb{H}\). In Section 5, the author introduces ``the filled Julia set'' and the ``dynamical pieces'' to study the more difficult cases: when \(J(\varphi) \cap \mathbb{H}\) contains a repelling periodic orbit. Sections 6 and 7 present the application of \(\alpha\)-laminations to study the dynamics of maps with repelling periodic orbits in the non-rigid Julia set. The theory of ``abstract \(\alpha\)-laminations'' will provide a model for the dynamics over the convex hull \(\widehat{J(\varphi)}\) of the Julia set. As a consequence of the study of the orbit of the Fatou set, the author discovered an analogue of the non-wandering domain theorem in the context of quadratic dynamics over \(\mathbb{L}\).