On Nearly Euclidean Thurston Maps

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2012-05-01
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Virginia Tech
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Nearly Euclidean Thurston maps are simple generalizations of rational Lattes maps. A Thurston map is called nearly Euclidean if its local degree at each critical point is 2 and it has exactly four postcritical points. We investigate when such a map has the property that the associated pullback map on Teichmuller space is constant. We also show that no Thurston map of degree 2 has constant pullback map.

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nonseparating sets, constant pullback map, finite subdivision rules, Thurston maps
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