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Record Nr.

UNISA996466526503316

Autore

Pilgrim Kevin M

Titolo

Combinations of Complex Dynamical Systems [[electronic resource] /] / by Kevin M. Pilgrim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-39936-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 120 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1827

Classificazione

37F20

Disciplina

515/.39

510 s

Soggetti

Functions of complex variables

Dynamics

Ergodic theory

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Functions of a Complex Variable

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Combinations -- Uniqueness of combinations -- Decompositions -- Uniqueness of decompositions -- Counting classes of annulus maps -- Applications to mapping class groups. Examples -- Canonical decomposition theorem.

Sommario/riassunto

This work is a research-level monograph whose goal is to develop a general combination, decomposition, and structure theory for branched coverings of the two-sphere to itself, regarded as the combinatorial and topological objects which arise in the classification of certain holomorphic dynamical systems on the Riemann sphere. It is intended for researchers interested in the classification of those complex one-dimensional dynamical systems which are in some loose sense tame. The program is motivated by the dictionary between the theories of iterated rational maps and Kleinian groups.