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Siegel Disk


A Siegel disk is a periodic connected component of the Fatou set on which the first-return iterate is analytically conjugate to an irrational rotation of a disk. At an irrational neutral fixed point moved to 0, this means that a holomorphic change of coordinates conjugates f to z|->e^(2piialpha)z for an irrational number alpha (Siegel 1942, Yoccoz 1995).

A Brjuno number satisfies an arithmetic condition on the denominators of its continued fraction convergents that guarantees such linearization. Dudko et al. (2026), using a reduction of Buff et al. (2026), proved that for every polynomial f of polynomial degree at least two with f(0)=0 and f^'(0)=e^(2piialpha) for an irrational number alpha, the fixed point has a Siegel disk iff alpha is a Brjuno number. This proves the polynomial case of Douady's conjecture on the optimality of the Brjuno condition. Neutral periodic points reduce to this case by iteration.


See also

Brjuno Number, Julia Set

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References

Buff, X.; Chéritat, A.; and Roesch, P. "Biggest Bounded Type Siegel Disks of Monic Polynomials Include Those That Stick to All Critical Points." 3 Oct 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24833.Dudko, D.; Luo, Y.; and Zhang, R. "Multicritical Pseudo-Siegel Bounds and the Optimality of the Brjuno Condition for All Neutral Polynomials." 27 Oct 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37468.Siegel, C. L. "Iteration of Analytic Functions." Ann. Math. 43, 807-812, 1942.Yoccoz, J.-C. "Théorème de Siegel, nombres de Bruno et polynômes quadratiques." Astérisque 231, 3-88, 1995.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Siegel Disk." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SiegelDisk.html

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