Julia Sets for Sequences of Monomials

Abstract

We study Julia sets arising from non-autonomous iteration of monomials on the Riemann sphere. We give a precise description of the Julia set associated to an arbitrary sequence of monomials in terms of their coefficients and degrees. Combined with the basic invariance relation for non-autonomous Julia sets, this yields a plethora of striking examples in polynomial non-autonomous dynamics: finite Julia sets of arbitrary cardinality, non-trivial Julia sets with non-empty interior, Julia sets that are perfect but not uniformly perfect, and Julia sets with empty interior but positive area. We also describe a connection between autonomous and non-autonomous Julia sets of monomial sequences through Kuratowski limits.

19 pages, 1 figure