Two devil’s staircases in holomorphic dynamics
Shaun Bullett (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, Reino Unido)
Binary sequences and continued fraction expansions play key roles in the dynamics of iterated rational
maps, Kleinian groups and holomorphic correspondences. I will talk about two devil?s staircases relating
expressions for real numbers, and their application to Julia sets and the Mandelbrot Set (Douady
and Hubbard) and to ?matings? between rational maps and Kleinian groups (Bullett, Penrose and Lomonaco):
these matings are holomorphic correspondences which display the behaviour of a rational
map on one part of the Riemann sphere, and of a Kleinian group on the complement. No background
knowledge of complex dynamics will be assumed.