Hyperbolic components of cosine family with a fixed critical point

Abstract

We studied the parameter plane of the cosine functions with a fixed critical point. The hyperbolic components can be classified into three types: A, C and D. All the hyperbolic components are bounded and simply connected, except for the unique type-A component, which contains 0 as an isolated boundary point. Using the method of para-puzzle, we constructed a phase-parameter transfer mapping and proved that the boundaries of hyperbolic components are Jordan curves. By a similar idea, the hyperbolic components of type C are quasidisks.