Main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set
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The main cardioid consists of quadratic parameters with an attracting fixed point. If that fixed point has multiplier , then it is and , . The map is injective on the open unit disc: equality of two parameter values forces either equal multipliers or their sum to be two, impossible for distinct interior multipliers. Its boundary is the cardioid obtained from . At the parameter derivative vanishes, giving the cusp . Parameters just to the real right of that cusp have monotonically escaping critical orbits, while the cusp's critical orbit tends to , so it is on the Mandelbrot set boundary.
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