The Geometry of the Critically Periodic Curves in the Space of Cubic Polynomials

Laura De Marco, Aaron Schiff
2013 Experimental Mathematics  
We provide an algorithm for computing the Euler characteristic of the curves S p in P cm 3 C 2 , consisting of all polynomials with a periodic critical point of period p in the space of critically-marked, complex, cubic polynomials. The curves were introduced in [Mi, BKM], and the algorithm applies the main results of [DP]. The output is shown for periods p ≤ 26.
doi:10.1080/10586458.2013.743857 fatcat:4dmtpfwg3jgfrh6vz7msqkiaie