Milnor's Hausdorff-dimension conjecture for exceptional hyperbolic component boundaries

Let F\mathcal F be an algebraic family in the space Ratd\operatorname{Rat}_d of rational maps of degree d2d\geq 2, and let H\mathcal H be a hyperbolic component in F\mathcal F. Call H\mathcal H exceptional if all maps on H\partial\mathcal H have at least one indifferent cycle. Write H.dim(H)\operatorname{H.dim}(\partial\mathcal H) for the Hausdorff dimension of H\partial\mathcal H, and let dimtop(H)\dim_{\mathrm{top}}(\partial\mathcal H) denote its topological dimension.

Milnor's Hausdorff-dimension conjecture. If H\mathcal H is not exceptional, then H\partial\mathcal H is a fractal set in the sense that

H.dim(H)>dimtop(H),\operatorname{H.dim}(\partial\mathcal H)>\dim_{\mathrm{top}}(\partial\mathcal H),

where dimtop(H)\dim_{\mathrm{top}}(\partial\mathcal H) is the topological dimension of H\partial\mathcal H.

The conjecture concerns the analytic complexity of non-exceptional hyperbolic component boundaries, asserting that their Hausdorff dimension strictly exceeds their topological dimension. The source presents this as Milnor's Conjecture 2(b); no resolution is given.

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Jie Cao, Xiaoguang Wang and Yongcheng Yin, “Boundaries of capture hyperbolic components”, arXiv:2206.07462 (2022).

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