# we-solve research prompt: Math-3948, Domains of holomorphy for expanding-map components

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/domains-of-holomorphy-for-expanding-map-components/).

## Rules
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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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\section{Domains of holomorphy for expanding-map components}\label{5300017}
{\small\sffamily UnsolvedMath ID 5300017 · Dynamical Systems}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}

\paragraph{Shared notation.}$\mathbb N=\{1,2,\ldots\}$, and $\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$ denote the integers, rationals, reals and complex numbers. Any other conventions are specified locally.


Fix $n>1$. A finite Blaschke product of degree $n$ is a proper holomorphic map of the unit disk $\Delta=\{z\in\mathbb C:|z|<1\}$ to itself of that degree. Let $A,B$ be such maps with $A(0)=B(0)=0$. Choose boundary fixed points $a,b$; there is a unique quasisymmetric conjugacy $h$ of the boundary circles with $h(a)=b$. Glue the disks by $h$ and transport the two dynamics to obtain a rational map $f(A,B)$ of the Riemann sphere, defined up to conformal conjugacy. Its Julia set is a quasicircle and the maps on the two complementary disks are conformally conjugate to $A$ and $B$. A quasicircle is a quasiconformal image of a circle. As in the source, the spaces below represent conformal-conjugacy classes; the boundary fixed-point choices are kept consistent, and additional finite combinatorial markings are suppressed.
Write $\mathcal B(z^n)$ for the component of the degree-$n$ polynomial space containing $z^n$ in which there is an attracting fixed point whose immediate basin contains every finite critical point. Equivalently it is the space of maps $f(z^n,B)$. For fixed $A$, put $\mathcal B(A)=\{f(A,B):B\text{ varies}\}$. These spaces inherit complex structures from the polynomial or rational-map parameter space. Their actual boundaries are taken by closure in those degree-$n$ map spaces, with the same conformal-conjugacy convention. The natural biholomorphism is $F(f(z^n,B))=f(A,B)$.
A rational map is expanding here in the source's sense of hyperbolic dynamics on its Julia set. A connected complex domain is a domain of holomorphy if its holomorphic functions do not all extend holomorphically across any strictly larger domain (in the usual intrinsic complex-manifold formulation).
\paragraph{Statement recorded in the supplied source.}
Is $\mathcal B(z^n)$ a domain of holomorphy? More generally, is every component of expanding rational maps a domain of holomorphy, and is every component of expanding polynomials a domain of holomorphy? \sref{5300017}{2}
\subsection{Short English statement}
Ask whether the principal component, and all components of hyperbolic rational maps or polynomials, are domains of holomorphy.
\subsection{Sources}
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\item[\hypertarget{source:5300017:1}{S1}] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 5300017 (AMR-052-0017). CC BY 4.0. \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[\hypertarget{source:5300017:2}{S2}] Curt McMullen, Rational maps and Teichmüller space, in Ben Bielefeld and Mikhail Lyubich (editors), Problems in holomorphic dynamics (1992). Remarks, intrinsic Question, pp. 9–10. \url{https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9205209}.
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-052-0017

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-5300017
Title:
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Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
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