Special Session 6: Special session on Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications

Attracting Basins and Capture Components in Polynomial Limits

Joanna Furno
University of South Alabama
USA
Co-Author(s):    Devin Becker, Lorelei Koss
Abstract:
In joint work with Devin Becker and Lorelei Koss, we explore the convergence of polynomial families to families that are a product of a power map and the exponential. These families have several critical points but only one free critical point that can change behavior with the parameter. We leverage this fact to describe the structure of the attracting basins in dynamical space and the capture components in parameter space, where the orbit of the free critical point converges to the fixed critical point at 0.