Presentations of NET maps
- 1 January 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Fundamenta Mathematicae
- Vol. 244 (1) , 49-72
Abstract
A branched covering $f\colon S^2 \to S^2$ is a nearly Euclidean Thurston (NET) map if each critical point is simple and its postcritical set has exactly four points. We show that up to equivalence, each NET map admits a normal form in terms of si