Algorithmic aspects of branched coverings IV/V. Expanding maps
Algorithmic aspects of branched coverings IV/V. Expanding maps
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DOI:
10.1090/tran/7199
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发表时间:
2016-10
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
L. Bartholdi;Dzmitry Dudko
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作者:
L. Bartholdi;Dzmitry Dudko
Thurston maps are branched self-coverings of the sphere whose critical points have finite forward orbits. We give combinatorial and algebraic characterizations of Thurston maps that are isotopic to expanding maps as "Levy-free" maps and as maps with "contracting biset". We prove that every Thurston map decomposes along a unique minimal multicurve into Levy-free and finite-order pieces, and this decomposition is algorithmically computable. Each of these pieces admits a geometric structure. We apply these results to matings of post-critically finite polynomials, extending a criterion by Mary Rees and Tan Lei: they are expanding if and only if they do not admit a cycle of periodic rays.