From Cantor to Semi-hyperbolic Parameter along External Rays

Abstract

For the quadratic family $f_c(z)=z^2+c$ with $c$ in the exterior of the Mandelbrot set, it is known that every point in the Julia set moves holomorphically. Let $\hat{c}$ be a semi-hyperbolic parameter in the boundary of the Mandelbrot set. In this paper we prove that for each $z=z(c)$ in the Julia set, the derivative $dz(c)/dc$ is uniformly $O(1/\sqrt{|c-\hat{c}|})$ when $c$ belongs to a parameter ray that lands on $\hat{c}$. We also characterize the degeneration of the dynamics along the parameter ray.

35 pages, 5 figures,