Triviality of fibers for quadratic polynomials and exponential maps

Consider the parameter spaces of the quadratic family pc(z)=z2+cp_c(z)=z^2+c and the exponential family Ec(z)=ez+cE_c(z)=e^z+c. For a parameter cc, its reduced fiber is the set of parameters in the reduced parameter space that cannot be separated from cc by any separation line; a fiber is trivial when it consists of exactly one point.

Trivial-fibers conjecture. In the parameter spaces of quadratic polynomials and exponential maps, all fibers are trivial.

For quadratic polynomials, this conjecture is equivalent to the local connectivity conjecture for the Mandelbrot set. The exponential case requires substantially subtler topological information about parameter space and remains open.

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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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