Abstract

This chapter proves that the tricorn is not locally connected and not even pathwise connected, confirming an observation of John Milnor from 1992. The tricorn is the connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic quadratic polynomials z ↦ ̄z² + c. The chapter extends this discussion more generally for antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials of degrees d ≥ 2 and their connectedness loci, known as multicorns. The multicorn M*subscript d is the connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials psubscript c(z) = ̄zsubscript d + c of degree d, i.e., the set of parameters for which the Julia set is connected. The special case d = 2 is the tricorn, which is the formal antiholomorphic analog to the Mandelbrot set.

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