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Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets of complex Hénon mappings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

A. Verjovsky
Affiliation:
UFR de Mathématiques, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve D'Ascq, Lille, France
H. Wu
Affiliation:
Einstein Chair, City University of New York, 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036-8099, USA

Abstract

The Hausdorff dimension of closed invariant sets under diffeomorphisms is an interesting concept as it is a measure of their complexity. The theory of holomorphic dynamical systems provides us with many examples of fractal sets and, in particular, a theorem of Ruelle [Ru1] shows that the Hausdorff dimension of the Julia set depends real analytically on f if f is a rational function of ℂ and the Julia set J of f is hyperbolic. In this paper we generalize Ruelle's result for complex dimension two and show the real analytic dependence of the Hausdorff dimension of the corresponding Julia sets of hyperbolic Hénon mappings.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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