Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Wj79ms Complex Dynamics and Renormalization (AM-135), Volume 135 By: Curtis T. McMullen Publisher: Princeton University Press Print ISBN: 9780691029818, 0691029814 eText ISBN: 9781400882557, 1400882559 Copyright year: 1995 Format: PDF Available from $ 78.50 USD SKU 9781400882557 Addressing researchers and graduate students in the active meeting ground of analysis, geometry, and dynamics, this book presents a study of renormalization of quadratic polynomials and a rapid introduction to techniques in complex dynamics. Its central concern is the structure of an infinitely renormalizable quadratic polynomial f(z) = z2 c. As discovered by Feigenbaum, such a mapping exhibits a repetition of form at infinitely many scales. Drawing on universal estimates in hyperbolic geometry, this work gives an analysis of the limiting forms that can occur and develops a rigidity criterion for the polynomial f. This criterion supports general conjectures about the behavior of rational maps and the structure of the Mandelbrot set. The course of the main argument entails many facets of modern complex dynamics. Included are foundational results in geometric function theory, quasiconformal mappings, and hyperbolic geometry. Most of the tools are discussed in the setting of general polynomials and rational maps. Additional ISBNs 9780691029825, 0691029822
