On dynamical gaskets generated by rational maps, Kleinian groups, and Schwarz reflections

Abstract

According to the Circle Packing Theorem, any triangulation of the Riemann sphere can be realized as a nerve of a circle packing. Reflections in the dual circles generate a Kleinian group H H whose limit set is a generalized Apollonian gasket Λ H \Lambda _H . We design a surgery that relates H H to a rational map g g whose Julia set J g \mathcal {J}_g is (non-quasiconformally) homeomorphic to Λ H \Lambda _H . We show for a large class of triangulations, however, the groups of quasisymmetries of Λ H \Lambda _H and J g \mathcal {J}_g are isomorphic and coincide with the corresponding groups of self-homeomorphisms. Moreover, in the case of H H , this group is equal to the group of Möbius symmetries of Λ H \Lambda _H , which is the semi-direct product of H H itself and the group of Möbius symmetries of the underlying circle packing. In the case of the tetrahedral triangulation (when Λ H \Lambda _H is the classical Apollonian gasket), we give a quasiregular model for the above actions which is quasiconformally equivalent to g g and produces H H by a David surgery. We also construct a mating between the group and the map coexisting in the same dynamical plane and show that it can be generated by Schwarz reflections in the deltoid and the inscribed circle.