Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps

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Main Authors: Geyer, Lukas, Hlushchanka, Mikhail
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author Geyer, Lukas
Hlushchanka, Mikhail
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Hlushchanka, Mikhail
contents We provide a complete combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps, i.e., orientation-reversing branched covers of the 2-sphere that fix every critical point. The first step in the proof, and an interesting result in its own right, is a combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-rational maps as "Schottky maps" associated to certain plane graphs. Both of these classification results heavily rely on an orientation-reversing version of Thurstons's theory, including the canonical decomposition of anti-Thurston maps, which we develop in this paper. Lastly, we give some applications to the global curve attractor and twisting problems, as well as to anti-rational maps with symmetries and to critically fixed anti-polynomials.
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spellingShingle Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps
Geyer, Lukas
Hlushchanka, Mikhail
Dynamical Systems
37F20, 37F10 (Primary) 30D05 (Secondary)
We provide a complete combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps, i.e., orientation-reversing branched covers of the 2-sphere that fix every critical point. The first step in the proof, and an interesting result in its own right, is a combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-rational maps as "Schottky maps" associated to certain plane graphs. Both of these classification results heavily rely on an orientation-reversing version of Thurstons's theory, including the canonical decomposition of anti-Thurston maps, which we develop in this paper. Lastly, we give some applications to the global curve attractor and twisting problems, as well as to anti-rational maps with symmetries and to critically fixed anti-polynomials.
title Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps
topic Dynamical Systems
37F20, 37F10 (Primary) 30D05 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10788