Dendrite (mathematics)

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Short description: Locally connected dendroid

In mathematics, a dendrite is a certain type of topological space that may be characterized either as a locally connected dendroid or equivalently as a locally connected continuum that contains no simple closed curves.[1]

Dendrite Julia set

Importance

Dendrites may be used to model certain types of Julia set.[2] For example, if 0 is pre-periodic, but not periodic, under the function [math]\displaystyle{ f(z) = z^2 + c }[/math], then the Julia set of [math]\displaystyle{ f }[/math] is a dendrite: connected, without interior.[3]

References

  1. Analytic Topology, American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, 28, New York: American Mathematical Society, 1942, p. 88, https://books.google.com/books?id=niByQPkPObwC&pg=PA88 .
  2. Carleson, Lennart; Gamelin, Theodore W. (1993), Complex Dynamics, Universitext, 69, Springer, p. 94, ISBN 9780387979427, https://books.google.com/books?id=M-I8qRE8HGUC&pg=PA94 .
  3. An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, Studies in Nonlinearity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989, p. 294 .

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