Conjugacy classes of real analytic one-dimensional maps are analytic connected manifolds

Abstract

An important question is to describe topological conjugacy classes of dynamical systems. Here we show that within the space of real analytic one-dimensional maps with critical points of prescribed order, the conjugacy class of a map is a real analytic manifold. This extends results of Avila-Lyubich-de Melo \cite{ALM} for the quasi-quadratic unimodal case and of Clark \cite{C} for the more general unimodal case. Their methods fail in the case where there are several critical points, and for this reason we introduce the new notions of {\em pruned Julia set} of a real analytic map, and associate to a real analytic map an {\em external map} of the circle {\em with discontinuities} and {\em a pruned polynomial-like} complex extension of the real analytic map. Using this we are also able to show that topological conjugacy classes are connected (something which was not even known in the general unimodal setting). Even more, this space is contractible. In a companion paper, further applications of this paper will be given. It will be shown that within any real analytic family of real analytic one-dimensional maps, hyperbolic parameters form an open and dense subset.