A Subfamily of Julia Sets

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The Julia set of a complex rational function is the self-similar set of points
for which the orbits of
are bounded (
is the
iterate of
). These sets were named after the the French mathematician Gaston Julia, who published his results in 1918. One subfamily of Julia sets with interesting topology and dynamics uses functions of the type
Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (January 2015)
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A site with a series of papers about this family, mainly by Robert L. Devaney, can be found at http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/papers.html.
Reference
[1] R. L. Devaney, A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems, Westview Press, 1992.
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