Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2017
The aim of this paper is to show $J$-stability of expanding rational maps over an algebraically closed, complete and non-Archimedean field of characteristic zero. More precisely, we will show that for any expanding rational map, there exists a neighborhood of it such that the dynamics on the Julia set of any rational map in the neighborhood is the same as the dynamics of the expanding rational map as a non-Archimedean analogue of a corollary of Mañé, Sad and Sullivan’s result [On the dynamics of rational maps. Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4)16 (1983), 193–217] in complex dynamics.