Across the Boundary Conjecture for Mandelbrot copies
Across the Boundary Conjecture for Mandelbrot copies
Let a Mandelbrot copy in cut across the boundary between two escape regions at a parabolic point of period . The associated dynamic configuration includes periodic rays , co-periodic rays , and their twin rays ; the marked critical point is and the free critical point is . Across the Boundary Conjecture. There are four parameter rays landing on , and four corresponding triads in the Julia set for . If , the periodic dynamic rays land at the point of period at least two between and ; the co-periodic rays land at the root point of the hyperbolic component containing ; and the twin rays land on a preimage of . The midpoint between the periodic landing point and the landing point of the twin rays is always the free critical point . If is self-dual, as for a Type A component, the twin rays land precisely at the root point of . This conjecture seeks a general description of the ray configuration when a Mandelbrot copy crosses an escape-region boundary; the source gives illustrative examples but no resolution.
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Primary source
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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