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Title:
Bounding limbs of the Mandelbrot set

Speaker:
Alex Kapiamba

Abstract:
The Yoccoz inequality implies that the p/q-limb of the Mandelbrot set has size O(1/q), though it is conjectured that this bound could be improved to O(1/q^2). In this talk we will show that such a bound holds for the 1/q-limbs of the Mandelbrot set. As q tends to infinity, parameters in the 1/q-limbs tend to the parabolic parameter 1/4 and high iterates of the corresponding polynomials can converge locally to transcendental Lavaurs maps, a phenomenon called parabolic implosion. We will define analogs of external rays for Lavaurs maps and use these rays to control external rays of quadratic polynomials close to z^2+1/4.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=4547

Workshop:
Simons- Program: Renormalization and universality in Conformal Geometry, Dynamics, Random Processes, and Field Theory