On Thurston's pullback map

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Abstract: Let f: P^1 o P^1 be a rational map with finite postcritical set P_f. Thurston showed that f induces a holomorphic map sigma_f of the Teichmueller space T modelled on P_f to itself fixing the basepoint corresponding to the identity map (P^1, P_f) o (P^1, P_f). We give explicit examples of such maps f showing that the following cases may occur: (1) the basepoint is an attracting fixed point, the image of sigma_f is open and dense, and the map sigma_f is a covering map onto its image; (2) the basepoint is a superattracting fixed point, sigma is surjective, and sigma is a ramified Galois covering, (3) sigma_f is constant.











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