Dendrite (mathematics)

In mathematics, a dendrite is a certain type of topological space that may be characterized either as a locally connected dendroid or equivalently as a locally connected continuum that contains no simple closed curves.

[1] Dendrites may be used to model certain types of Julia set.

[2] For example, if 0 is pre-periodic, but not periodic, under the function

is a dendrite: connected, without interior.

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