Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/iii/paper-157/1/b/solution

Suppose first that . Complete invariance implies that every iterate maps into itself. Hence the family omits the same three points of on this open set. By Montel theorem,
so
If consists of one or two points, complete invariance makes permute those points and makes every preimage of them remain in . Some iterate fixes each point and is totally ramified there. In a local coordinate it therefore has the form with , so the point is superattracting for that iterate and belongs to the Fatou set. This proves the completely invariant closed set of a rational map dichotomy.

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