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THE PARAMETER SPACE OF A QUADRATIC FAMILY OF POLYNOMIAL MAPS OF ℂ²

ALINA ANDREI

Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI, 53706-1510, USA

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the parameter space of the quadratic polynomial family f_λ,μ(z, w) = (λz + w², μw + z²), which exhibits interesting dynamics. Two distinct subsets of the parameter space are studied as appropriate analogs of the one-dimensional Mandelbrot set and some of their properties are proved by using Lyapunov exponents. In the more general context of holomorphic families of regular maps, we show that the sum of the Lyapunov exponents is a plurisubharmonic function of the parameter, and pluriharmonic on the set of expanding maps. Moreover, for the family f_λ,μ, we prove that the sum of the Lyapunov exponents is continuous.

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AMSC: 37F45, 32H50

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