The Dynamics of Planar Quadratic Maps with Nonempty Bounded Critical Set

If the critical set of a planar quadratic map is bounded and nonempty, then the range is doubly covered except the image of the critical set and the region bounded by it (Fig. 1). For a map of this type, we showed that infinity is a sink and the set of bounded orbits is nonempty hence its boundary may be regarded as a generalization of Julia sets of complex quadratic maps. In this paper, we also provided evidences to conjecture that maps of this type have infinitely many periodic points.