Realizing polynomial portraits

MaRDI QIDQ6368167zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors William Floyd, Daniel Kim, Sarah Koch, W. R. Parry, Edgar Saenz

Publication date 20 May 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics and topology in relation with holomorphic dynamical systems (37F20) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: It is well known that the dynamical behavior of a rational map $f:widehatmathbbCowidehatmathbbC$ is governed by the forward orbits of the critical points of $f$. The map $f$ is said to be postcritically finite if every critical point has finite forward orbit, or equivalently, if every critical point eventually maps into a periodic cycle of $f$. We encode the orbits of the critical points of $f$ with a finite directed graph called a ramification portrait. In this article, we study which graphs arise as ramification portraits. We prove that every abstract polynomial portrait is realized as the ramification portrait of a postcritically finite polynomial, and classify which abstract polynomial portraits can only be realized by unobstructed maps.

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