Critical-orbit convergence conjecture for non-linearizable indifferent fixed points

Let ff be a rational function of degree 22 or more, with an indifferent irrational non-linearizable fixed point z0z_0. A point c0c_0 is a critical point if it is a critical point of ff.

Critical-orbit convergence conjecture. There exists a critical point c0c_0 of ff such that

limn+1nj=0n1δfj(c0)δz0.\lim_{n\to +\infty} \frac1n \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \delta_{f^j(c_0)} \to \delta_{z_0}.

The conjecture is proposed as a replacement for Lyubich's earlier conjecture that a critical orbit converges directly to an indifferent irrational non-linearizable fixed point, which the source states is false for a generic rational function. It asks instead for convergence of the empirical measures of a critical orbit to the point mass at the fixed point; its status is not established in the supplied text.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Ricardo Perez-Marco, “Solution to Briot and Bouquet problem on singularities of differential equations”, arXiv:1802.03630 (2018).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.