Bifurcation locus

In complex dynamics, the bifurcation locus of a family of holomorphic functions informally is a locus of those maps for which the dynamical behavior changes drastically under a small perturbation of the parameter. Thus the bifurcation locus can be thought of as an analog of the Julia set in parameter space. Without doubt, the most famous example of a bifurcation locus is the boundary of the Mandelbrot set.

Parameters in the complement of the bifurcation locus are called J-stable.

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See also

Connectedness locus

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