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arxiv: math/9903201 · v1 · pith:JJNQJIC7new · submitted 1999-03-01 · 🧮 math.DS

Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser universality and Milnor's Hairiness Conjecture

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We prove the Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser conjecture on the hyperbolicity of the renormalization transformation of bounded type. This gives the first computer-free proof of the original Feigenbaum observation of the universal parameter scaling laws. We use the Hyperbolicity Theorem to prove Milnor's conjectures on self-similarity and "hairiness" of the Mandelbrot set near the corresponding parameter values. We also conclude that the set of real infinitely renormalizable quadratics of type bounded by some N>1 has Hausdorff dimension strictly between 0 and 1. In the course of getting these results we supply the space of quadratic-like germs with a complex analytic structure and demonstrate that the hybrid classes form a complex codimension-one foliation of the connectedness locus.

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