Tan Lei similarity for cubic polynomial parameter spaces

Let Sp{\mathcal S}_p be the parameter space under consideration, let F0SpF_0\in{\mathcal S}_p be a Misiurewicz map, and let z(F)z(F) be the unique pre-periodic point near F0F_0 with z(F0)=2aF0z(F_0)=2a_{F_0}. Define

s(F)=2aFz(F).s(F)=2a_F-z(F).

Tan Lei Similarity. Under iterated magnification, the connectedness locus around a Misiurewicz map FSpF\in{\mathcal S}_p looks more and more like the filled Julia set of FF around the free co-critical point 2aF2a_F, up to a fixed scale change and rotation. Moreover, the correspondence Fs(F)F\mapsto s(F) is univalent throughout some neighborhood of F0F_0, so that it gives a dynamically defined holomorphic local coordinate; in this coordinate, Sp{\mathcal S}_p near F0F_0 looks more and more like the dynamic plane for F0F_0 near 2aF02a_{F_0}, without a preliminary scale change or rotation. The conjecture extends Tan Lei's quadratic similarity phenomenon to these parameter spaces; the source presents numerical examples and related ray-order observations, but no resolution.

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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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