Pilgrim's finite curve attractor conjecture

Let f ⁣:C^C^f\colon \widehat{\mathbb{C}}\to\widehat{\mathbb{C}} be a post-critically finite rational map that is not a flexible Lattès map. A simple closed curve on (C^,Pf)(\widehat{\mathbb{C}},P_f) is called essential when it is essential in the punctured sphere, and fn(γ)f^{-n}(\gamma) denotes the full preimage of a curve under the nn-fold iterate of ff. Pilgrim's finite curve attractor conjecture. There exists a finite set XX of homotopy classes of essential simple closed curves on (C^,Pf)(\widehat{\mathbb{C}},P_f) such that, for any simple closed curve γ\gamma on (C^,Pf)(\widehat{\mathbb{C}},P_f), every essential component of fn(γ)f^{-n}(\gamma) belongs to XX for all sufficiently large n>0n>0. This conjecture describes a finite attractor for the pullback dynamics of curves associated with a post-critically finite rational map; the supplied source does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Primary source

Jeremy Kahn and Insung Park, “Puncture-Forgetting Maps for Measured Foliations and Applications in Teichmüller Space and Complex Dynamics”, arXiv:2607.27552 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2605.00633, arXiv:2401.16636.

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