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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 157 2 a Solution by
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Let be attracting and let be its immediate basin. If itself is critical there is nothing to prove. Otherwise suppose contains no critical point. The restriction is then an unbranched covering. Since the complement of contains the Julia set and hence at least three points, is hyperbolic. Lift the covering to the universal cover , choosing a lift that fixes a point above . Because both maps are universal coverings, the lift is an automorphism of . A disc automorphism fixing an interior point has derivative of hyperbolic norm one there, whereas the multiplier at has modulus strictly below one. This contradiction proves that contains a critical point, whose orbit converges to . Thus every attracting fixed point attracts a critical point.
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