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

Inverse limits of unimodal maps on dendrites

Jonathan Meddaugh
Baylor University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Cordell Hammon, Brian Raines
Abstract:
In this talk, we will discuss the topological structure of inverse limits of unimodal maps on self-similar dendrites. In particular, for a fixed dendrite $D$ and unimodal map $f:D\to D$ under which $D$ is self-similar, we demonstrate that there is a countable collection $\{g_i:D\to D\}$ of unimodal maps under which $D$ is self-similar, which share the same critical point and Hubbard tree (the convex hull of the critical orbit in $D$) but have mutually non-homeomorphic inverse limits.