The shape of Thurston's master teapot

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Abstract: We establish basic geometric and topological properties of Thurston's Master Teapot and the Thurston set for superattracting unimodal self-maps of intervals. In particular, the Master Teapot is connected, contains the unit cylinder, and its intersection with a set mathbbDimesc grows monotonically with c. We show that the Thurston set described above is not equal to the Thurston set for postcritically finite tent maps, and we provide an arithmetic explanation for why certain gaps appear in plots of finite approximations of the Thurston set.


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.



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