Hyperbolicity of renormalization of critical quasicircle maps

Abstract: There is a well developed renormalization theory of real analytic critical circle maps by de Faria, de Melo, and Yampolsky. In this paper, we extend Yampolsky's result on hyperbolicity of renormalization periodic points to a larger class of dynamical objects, namely critical quasicircle maps, i.e. analytic self homeomorphisms of a quasicircle with a single critical point. Unlike critical circle maps, the inner and outer criticalities of critical quasicircle maps can be distinct. We develop a compact analytic renormalization operator called Corona Renormalization with a hyperbolic fixed point whose stable manifold has codimension one and consists of critical quasicircle maps of the same criticality and periodic type rotation number. Our proof is an adaptation of Pacman Renormalization Theory for Siegel disks as well as rigidity results on the escaping dynamics of transcendental entire functions.