Centered polygonal lacunary functions are a particular type of lacunary function that exhibit properties which set them apart from other lacunary functions. Primarily, centered polygonal lacunary functions have true rotational symmetry. This rotational symmetry is visually seen in the corresponding Julia and Mandelbrot sets. The features and characteristics of these related Julia and Mandelbrot sets are discussed and the parameter space, made with a phase rotation and offset shift, is intricately explored. Also studied in this work is the iterative dynamical map, its characteristics and its fixed points.

This work reports on a study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set for a generalization of the well-explored function η(z)=z2+λ. The generalization consists of composing with a fixed Möbius transformation at each iteration step. In particular, affine and inverse Möbius transformations are explored. This work offers a new way of visualizing the Mandelbrot and filled-in Julia sets. An interesting and unexpected appearance of hyperbolic triangles occurs in the structure of the Mandelbrot sets for the case of inverse Möbius transforms. Several lemmas and theorems associated with these types of fractal sets are presented.

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Centered polygonal lacunary functions are a type of lacunary function that exhibit behaviors that set them apart from other lacunary functions, this includes rotational symmetry. This work will build off of earlier studies to incorporate the automorphism group of the open unit disk D, which is a subgroup of the Möbius transformations. The behavior, dimension, dynamics, and sensitivity of filled-in Julia sets and Mandelbrot sets to variables will be discussed in detail. Additionally, several visualizations of this three-dimensional parameter space will be presented.

This work investigates centered polygonal lacunary functions restricted from the unit disk onto symmetry angle space which is defined by the symmetry angles of a given centered polygonal lacunary function. This restriction allows for one to consider only the p-sequences of the centered polygonal lacunary functions which are bounded, but not convergent, at the natural boundary. The periodicity of the p-sequences naturally gives rise to a convergent subsequence, which can be used as a grounds for decomposition of the restricted centered polygonal lacunary functions. A mapping of the unit disk to the sphere allows for the study of the line integrals of restricted centered polygonal that includes analytic progress towards closed form representations. Obvious closures of the domain obtained from the spherical map lead to four distinct topological spaces of the “broom topology” type.