Edge Monotonicity Conjecture for tessellations of cubic parameter spaces

Let p{\mathfrak p} be a parabolic endpoint of edges in Tesq(Sp){\bf Tes}_q({\overline{\mathcal S}}_p), and let HpH_{\mathfrak p} be its Type D hyperbolic component. Edge Monotonicity Conjecture. There can be at most four edges with a given parabolic endpoint p{\mathfrak p}. If there are two or more such edges, then the two edges closest to HpH_{\mathfrak p} are primary edges, so that the orbit portrait increases monotonically as one crosses into the face containing HpH_{\mathfrak p}. Any further edges are secondary. Furthermore, a primary edge and a secondary edge with the same parabolic endpoint always lie in different escape regions. This conjecture formalizes the observed relation between edge type, orbit-portrait monotonicity, and escape regions; no resolution is given in the source.

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Araceli Bonifant and John Milnor, “Cubic Polynomial Maps with Periodic Critical Orbit, Part III: Tessellations and Orbit Portraits”, arXiv:2503.08868 (2025).

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