Complex quadratic polynomial

Summary

A complex quadratic polynomial is a quadratic polynomial whose coefficients and variable are complex numbers.

Properties edit

Quadratic polynomials have the following properties, regardless of the form:

  • It is a unicritical polynomial, i.e. it has one finite critical point in the complex plane, Dynamical plane consist of maximally 2 basins: basin of infinity and basin of finite critical point ( if finite critical point do not escapes)
  • It can be postcritically finite, i.e. the orbit of the critical point can be finite, because the critical point is periodic or preperiodic.[1]
  • It is a unimodal function,
  • It is a rational function,
  • It is an entire function.

Forms edit

When the quadratic polynomial has only one variable (univariate), one can distinguish its four main forms:

  • The general form:   where  
  • The factored form used for the logistic map:  
  •   which has an indifferent fixed point with multiplier   at the origin[2]
  • The monic and centered form,  

The monic and centered form has been studied extensively, and has the following properties:

The lambda form   is:

  • the simplest non-trivial perturbation of unperturbated system  
  • "the first family of dynamical systems in which explicit necessary and sufficient conditions are known for when a small divisor problem is stable"[4]

Conjugation edit

Between forms edit

Since   is affine conjugate to the general form of the quadratic polynomial it is often used to study complex dynamics and to create images of Mandelbrot, Julia and Fatou sets.

When one wants change from   to  :[2]

 

When one wants change from   to  , the parameter transformation is[5]

 

and the transformation between the variables in   and   is

 

With doubling map edit

There is semi-conjugacy between the dyadic transformation (the doubling map) and the quadratic polynomial case of c = –2.

Notation edit

Iteration edit

Here   denotes the n-th iterate of the function  :

 

so

 

Because of the possible confusion with exponentiation, some authors write   for the nth iterate of  .

Parameter edit

The monic and centered form   can be marked by:

  • the parameter  
  • the external angle   of the ray that lands:
    • at c in Mandelbrot set on the parameter plane
    • on the critical value:z = c in Julia set on the dynamic plane

so :

 
 

Examples:

  • c is the landing point of the 1/6 external ray of the Mandelbrot set, and is   (where i^2=-1)
  • c is the landing point the 5/14 external ray and is   with  

Map edit

The monic and centered form, sometimes called the Douady-Hubbard family of quadratic polynomials,[6] is typically used with variable   and parameter  :

 

When it is used as an evolution function of the discrete nonlinear dynamical system

 

it is named the quadratic map:[7]

 

The Mandelbrot set is the set of values of the parameter c for which the initial condition z0 = 0 does not cause the iterates to diverge to infinity.

Critical items edit

Critical points edit

complex plane edit

A critical point of   is a point   on the dynamical plane such that the derivative vanishes:

 

Since

 

implies

 

we see that the only (finite) critical point of   is the point  .

  is an initial point for Mandelbrot set iteration.[8]

For the quadratic family   the critical point z = 0 is the center of symmetry of the Julia set Jc, so it is a convex combination of two points in Jc.[9]

extended complex plane edit

In the Riemann sphere polynomial has 2d-2 critical points. Here zero and infinity are critical points.

Critical value edit

A critical value   of   is the image of a critical point:

 

Since

 

we have

 

So the parameter   is the critical value of  .

Critical level curves edit

A critical level curve the level curve which contain critical point. It acts as a sort of skeleton[10] of dynamical plane

Example : level curves cross at saddle point, which is a special type of critical point.

Critical limit set edit

Critical limit set is the set of forward orbit of all critical points

Critical orbit edit

 
Dynamical plane with critical orbit falling into 3-period cycle
 
Dynamical plane with Julia set and critical orbit.
 
Dynamical plane : changes of critical orbit along internal ray of main cardioid for angle 1/6
 
Critical orbit tending to weakly attracting fixed point with abs(multiplier) = 0.99993612384259

The forward orbit of a critical point is called a critical orbit. Critical orbits are very important because every attracting periodic orbit attracts a critical point, so studying the critical orbits helps us understand the dynamics in the Fatou set.[11][12][13]

 
 
 
 
 

This orbit falls into an attracting periodic cycle if one exists.

Critical sector edit

The critical sector is a sector of the dynamical plane containing the critical point.

Critical set edit

Critical set is a set of critical points

Critical polynomial edit

 

so

 
 
 
 

These polynomials are used for:

  • finding centers of these Mandelbrot set components of period n. Centers are roots of n-th critical polynomials
 
 

Critical curves edit

 
Critical curves

Diagrams of critical polynomials are called critical curves.[14]

These curves create the skeleton (the dark lines) of a bifurcation diagram.[15][16]

Spaces, planes edit

4D space edit

One can use the Julia-Mandelbrot 4-dimensional (4D) space for a global analysis of this dynamical system.[17]

 
w-plane and c-plane

In this space there are two basic types of 2D planes:

  • the dynamical (dynamic) plane,  -plane or c-plane
  • the parameter plane or z-plane

There is also another plane used to analyze such dynamical systems w-plane:

  • the conjugation plane[18]
  • model plane[19]

2D Parameter plane edit

The phase space of a quadratic map is called its parameter plane. Here:

  is constant and   is variable.

There is no dynamics here. It is only a set of parameter values. There are no orbits on the parameter plane.

The parameter plane consists of:

There are many different subtypes of the parameter plane.[21][22]

 
Multiplier map

See also :

  • Boettcher map which maps exterior of Mandelbrot set to the exterior of unit disc
  • multiplier map which maps interior of hyperbolic component of Mandelbrot set to the interior of unit disc

2D Dynamical plane edit

"The polynomial Pc maps each dynamical ray to another ray doubling the angle (which we measure in full turns, i.e. 0 = 1 = 2π rad = 360°), and the dynamical rays of any polynomial "look like straight rays" near infinity. This allows us to study the Mandelbrot and Julia sets combinatorially, replacing the dynamical plane by the unit circle, rays by angles, and the quadratic polynomial by the doubling modulo one map." Virpi Kauko[23]

On the dynamical plane one can find:

The dynamical plane consists of:

Here,   is a constant and   is a variable.

The two-dimensional dynamical plane can be treated as a Poincaré cross-section of three-dimensional space of continuous dynamical system.[24][25]

Dynamical z-planes can be divided into two groups:

  •   plane for   (see complex squaring map)
  •   planes (all other planes for  )

Riemann sphere edit

The extended complex plane plus a point at infinity

Derivatives edit

First derivative with respect to c edit

On the parameter plane:

  •   is a variable
  •   is constant

The first derivative of   with respect to c is

 

This derivative can be found by iteration starting with

 

and then replacing at every consecutive step

 

This can easily be verified by using the chain rule for the derivative.

This derivative is used in the distance estimation method for drawing a Mandelbrot set.

First derivative with respect to z edit

On the dynamical plane:

  •   is a variable;
  •   is a constant.

At a fixed point  ,

 

At a periodic point z0 of period p the first derivative of a function

 

is often represented by   and referred to as the multiplier or the Lyapunov characteristic number. Its logarithm is known as the Lyapunov exponent. Absolute value of multiplier is used to check the stability of periodic (also fixed) points.

At a nonperiodic point, the derivative, denoted by  , can be found by iteration starting with

 

and then using

 

This derivative is used for computing the external distance to the Julia set.

Schwarzian derivative edit

The Schwarzian derivative (SD for short) of f is:[26]

 

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Poirier, Alfredo (1993). "On postcritically finite polynomials, part 1: Critical portraits". arXiv:math/9305207.
  2. ^ a b "Michael Yampolsky, Saeed Zakeri : Mating Siegel quadratic polynomials" (PDF).
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  14. ^ The Road to Chaos is Filled with Polynomial Curves by Richard D. Neidinger and R. John Annen III. American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 103, No. 8, October 1996, pp. 640–653
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  19. ^ Holomorphic motions and puzzels by P Roesch
  20. ^ Rempe, Lasse; Schleicher, Dierk (12 May 2008). "Bifurcation Loci of Exponential Maps and Quadratic Polynomials: Local Connectivity, Triviality of Fibers, and Density of Hyperbolicity". arXiv:0805.1658 [math.DS].
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  22. ^ "Exponential Map, Mu-Ency at MROB". mrob.com.
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  25. ^ Moehlis, Kresimir Josic, Eric T. Shea-Brown (2006) Periodic orbit. Scholarpedia,
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External links edit

  • Monica Nevins and Thomas D. Rogers, "Quadratic maps as dynamical systems on the p-adic numbers"
  • Wolf Jung : Homeomorphisms on Edges of the Mandelbrot Set. Ph.D. thesis of 2002
  • More about Quadratic Maps : Quadratic Map