Spine approximation conjecture for the boundedness locus of generalized McMullen maps

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For the subfamily rn,ar_{n,a}, let Mn(rn,a)M_n(r_{n,a}) denote its boundedness locus, let Sn\mathcal{S}_n be its finite-nn spine, let S∞\mathcal{S}_\infty be the limiting spine, and let Nε(S)\mathcal{N}_\varepsilon(S) denote the ε\varepsilon-neighborhood of a set SS. Spine approximation conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0, there exists N≥3N\geq 3 such that for every n≥Nn\geq N, either Mn(rn,a)⊂Nε(Sn)M_n(r_{n,a})\subset\mathcal{N}_\varepsilon(\mathcal{S}_n) and/or Mn(rn,a)⊂Nε(S∞)M_n(r_{n,a})\subset\mathcal{N}_\varepsilon(\mathcal{S}_\infty). Thus the boundedness locus is contained in an ε\varepsilon-neighborhood of the spine. This is proposed as a possible strengthening of the proved annular containment result, and its validity is left for future work.

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Suzanne Boyd, Kelsey Brouwer and Matthew Hoeppner, “Exploring baby Julia sets in parameter space slices for Generalized McMullen Maps”, arXiv:2512.06992 (2026).

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