Connectivity of the Julia sets of singularly perturbed rational maps

Abstract

We consider a family of rational functions which is given by $$\begin{aligned} f_{\lambda }(z)=\frac{z^n(z^{2n}-\lambda ^{n+1})}{z^{2n}-\lambda ^{3n-1}}, \end{aligned}$$ where $$n\ge 2$$ and $$\lambda \in {\mathbb {C}}^*-\{\lambda :\lambda ^{2n-2}=1\}$$ . When $$\lambda \ne 0$$ is small, $$f_{\lambda }$$ can be seen as a perturbation of the unicritical polynomial $$z\mapsto z^n$$ . It was known that in this case the Julia set $$J(f_\lambda )$$ of $$f_\lambda $$ is a Cantor set of circles on which the dynamics of $$f_\lambda $$ is not topologically conjugate to that of any McMullen maps. In this paper, we prove that this is the unique case such that $$J(f_\lambda )$$ is disconnected.