Finite global attractor conjecture for Thurston pullback relations

Let f ⁣:(C^,P)(C^,P)f\colon (\widehat{\mathbb{C}},P)\to(\widehat{\mathbb{C}},P) be a rational Thurston map with a hyperbolic orbifold. Let CP\overline{\mathscr{C}_P} be the set of isotopy classes of essential and non-essential curves in C^P\widehat{\mathbb{C}}\setminus P, with \odot denoting the non-essential class, and let f\xleftarrow{f} be the pullback relation on curves. Finite global attractor conjecture. There is a finite set ACP\mathcal{A}\subset\overline{\mathscr{C}_P} such that every orbit

[γ0]f[γ1]f[γ2]f[\gamma_0]\xleftarrow{f}[\gamma_1]\xleftarrow{f}[\gamma_2]\xleftarrow{f}\dots

eventually lies in A\mathcal{A}. This conjecture predicts finite global dynamical behavior for pullback on curves of rational Thurston maps with hyperbolic orbifold; the source presents it as a motivation for the paper, and no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Mario Bonk, Mikhail Hlushchanka and Russell Lodge, “Thurston's pullback map, invariant covers, and the global dynamics on curves”, arXiv:2411.00732 (2024).

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