Equipotentials and folds for quasiregular Mandelbrot sets
Abstract
It is well-known that Douady and Hubbard proved that the Mandelbrot set is connected by constructing a uniformizing holomorphic map for its complement from the Böttcher coordinates. This strategy has a clear analogue in the setting of quasiregular Mandelbrot sets. In this paper, we show that the natural generalization of the Douady-Hubbard uniformizing map is quasiconformal in a neighbourhood of infinity, as well as, in fact, outside a certain neighbourhood of the quasiregular Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, we also show that this uniformizing map can reverse orientation at some parameters, which forces it to have folds and, in particular, prevents it from being injective. This feature cannot happen in the holomorphic setting. The connectivity of the quasiregular Mandelbrot sets therefore cannot be established along the Douady-Hubbard route, and remains open.
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BibTeX
@misc{fletcher2026equipotentials,
title = {{Equipotentials and folds for quasiregular Mandelbrot sets}},
author = {Alastair N. Fletcher},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.36377},
eprint = {2609.36377},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36377},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Equipotentials and folds for quasiregular Mandelbrot sets
AU - Alastair N. Fletcher
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.36377
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36377
AB - It is well-known that Douady and Hubbard proved that the Mandelbrot set is connected by constructing a uniformizing holomorphic map for its complement from the Böttcher coordinates. This strategy has a clear analogue in the setting of quasiregular Mandelbrot sets. In this paper, we show that the natural generalization of the Douady-Hubbard uniformizing map is quasiconformal in a neighbourhood of infinity, as well as, in fact, outside a certain neighbourhood of the quasiregular Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, we also show that this uniformizing map can reverse orientation at some parameters, which forces it to have folds and, in particular, prevents it from being injective. This feature cannot happen in the holomorphic setting. The connectivity of the quasiregular Mandelbrot sets therefore cannot be established along the Douady-Hubbard route, and remains open.
ER -