Sierpinski carpet hyperbolic components of disjoint type are bounded

Abstract: We establish certain uniform a priori bounds for hyperbolic components of disjoint type. As an application, we will prove that Sierpinski carpet hyperbolic components of disjoint type are bounded. Furthermore, we show that for each map $f$ on the closure of such a hyperbolic component, there exists a quadratic-like restriction around every non-repelling periodic point. Extensions of these results to non-Sierpinski configurations are underway. As a prototype example, we describe the post-critical set of any map on the boundary of the hyperbolic component of $z<sup>2$.