Milnor's Lemma, Newton's Method, and Continued Fractions

Let f be a quadratic map of the Riemann sphere S2 into itself. Such a map has three fixed points, counted with multiplicity. Let ...1, ...2, and ...3 be the multipliers of f at these points. Milnor proved (see [2, Lemma 3.1] ) that ...1, ...2, and ...3 determine f up to holomorphic conjugacy and are...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American mathematical monthly 2016-03, Vol.123 (3), p.258
Hauptverfasser: Bekker, Boris M, Ivanov, Oleg A, Merkurjev, Alexander S
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Zusammenfassung:Let f be a quadratic map of the Riemann sphere S2 into itself. Such a map has three fixed points, counted with multiplicity. Let ...1, ...2, and ...3 be the multipliers of f at these points. Milnor proved (see [2, Lemma 3.1] ) that ...1, ...2, and ...3 determine f up to holomorphic conjugacy and are subject only to the restriction ...1...2...3 -- (...1 + ...2 + ...3) + 2 = 0. In the present paper, we consider arbitrary regular maps from a projective line over an arbitrary field K into itself and give an elementary proof of the fact that two such maps coincide if the maps have the same collection of fixed points and equal multipliers at the corresponding points. We apply this result to demystify the long-known link between Newton's approximations and continued fractions (see [5] and [1]). (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)
ISSN:0002-9890
1930-0972
DOI:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.3.258