This monograph is devoted to the study of the dynamics of expanding Thurston maps under iteration. A Thurston map is a branched covering map on a two-dimensional topological sphere such that each critical point of the map has a finite orbit under iteration. A Thurston map is called expanding if, roughly speaking, preimages of a fine open cover of the underlying sphere under iterates of the map become finer and finer as the order of the iterate increases. Every expanding Thurston map gives rise to a fractal space, called its visual sphere. Many dynamical properties of the map are encoded in the geometry of this visual sphere. For example, an expanding Thurston map is topologically conjugate to a rational map if and only if its visual sphere is quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Riemann sphere. This relation between dynamics and fractal geometry is the main focus for the investigations in this work.
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A monograph devoted to the study of the dynamics of expanding Thurston maps under iteration. A Thurston map is a branched covering map on a two-dimensional topological sphere such that each critical point of the map has a finite orbit under iteration.
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IntroductionThurston mapsLattes mapsQuasiconformal and rough geometryCell decompositionsExpansionThurston maps with two or three postcritical pointsVisual metricsSymbolic dynamicsTile graphsIsotopiesSubdivisionsQuotients of Thurston mapsCombinatorially expanding Thurston mapsInvariant curvesThe combinatorial expansion factorThe measure of maximal entropyThe geometry of the visual sphereRational Thurston maps and Lebesgue measureA combinatorial characterization of Lattes mapsOutlook and open problemsAppendix ABibliographyIndex.
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ISBN
9780821875544
Publisert
2018-01-30
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American Mathematical Society
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1000 gr
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254 mm
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178 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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496

Biographical note

Mario Bonk, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Daniel Meyer, University of Liverpool, UK.