Symmetric cubic polynomials

Abstract: We describe a model $\mathcal{M}_3^{comb}$ for the boundary of the connectedness locus $\mathcal{M}^{sy}_3$ of the parameter space of cubic symmetric polynomials $p_c(z)=z^3-3c^2z$. We show that there exists a monotone continuous function $\pi:\partial \mathcal{M}_c^{sy}\to \mathcal{M}_3^{comb}$ which is a homeomorphism if $\mathcal{M}^{sy}_3$ is locally connected.