{ "id": "2012.14945", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-12-29T21:25:32.000Z", "updated": "2020-12-29T21:25:32.000Z", "title": "Irreducibility of periodic curves in cubic polynomial moduli space", "authors": [ "Matthieu Arfeux", "Jan Kiwi" ], "comment": "40 pages, 5 figures", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "In the moduli space of complex cubic polynomials with a marked critical point, given any p>=1, we prove that the loci formed by polynomials with the marked critical point periodic of period p is an irreducible curve. Thus answering a question posed by Milnor in the 90's.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-12-29T21:25:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "37F10", "47F05", "14H10" ], "keywords": [ "cubic polynomial moduli space", "periodic curves", "irreducibility", "complex cubic polynomials", "marked critical point periodic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 40, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }