Baby Mandelbrot sets and Spines in some one-dimensional subspaces of the parameter space for generalized McMullen Maps

Suzanne Boyd, Matthew Hoeppner

For the family of complex rational functions of the form $R_{n,c,a}(z)=z^n+\frac{a}{z^n}+c$, known as ``Generalized McMullen maps'', for $a\ne 0$ and $n\ge 3$ fixed, we stu…