Julia and mandelbrot sets for dynamics over the hyperbolic numbers

Abstract

Julia and Mandelbrot sets, which characterize bounded orbits in dynamical systems over the complex numbers, are classic examples of fractal sets. We investigate the analogs of these sets for dynamical systems over the hyperbolic numbers. Hyperbolic numbers, which have the form x + τy for (Formula Presented), and τ2 = 1 but τ ≠ ±1, are the natural number system in which to encode geometric properties of the Minkowski space R1,1. We show that the hyperbolic analog of the Mandelbrot set parameterizes the connectedness of hyperbolic Julia sets. We give a wall-and-chamber decomposition of the hyperbolic plane in terms of these Julia sets.