On Multicorns and Unicorns I: Antiholomorphic Dynamics, Hyperbolic Components and Real Cubic Polynomials

We investigate the dynamics and the bifurcation diagrams of iterated antiholomorphic polynomials: These are complex conjugates of ordinary polynomials. Their second iterates are holomorphic polynomials, but dependence on parameters is only real-analytic. The structure of hyperbolic components of the family of unicritical antiholomorphic polynomials is revealed. In case of degree two, they arise naturally in the parameter space of real cubic (holomorphic) polynomials, which we investigate as well.