Douady–Hubbard local connectivity conjecture for the Mandelbrot set
Douady–Hubbard local connectivity conjecture for the Mandelbrot set
Let be the quadratic family, let be its Mandelbrot set, and let be the quadratic bifurcation locus.
Douady–Hubbard's local connectivity conjecture. The set is locally connected.
This is equivalent to local connectivity of the Mandelbrot set and is described in the source as a central open problem in holomorphic dynamics. It is important in part because it implies density of hyperbolicity for quadratic polynomials.
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Lasse Rempe and Dierk Schleicher, “Bifurcation Loci of Exponential Maps and Quadratic Polynomials: Local Connectivity, Triviality of Fibers, and Density of Hyperbolicity”, arXiv:0805.1658 (2008).
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