%0 Journal Article %T A note on the connectedness locus of the families of polynomials Pc(z)=z n - cz n-j %A Arteaga %A Carlos %A Alves %A Alexandre %J Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %D 2012 %I Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %R 10.1590/S0001-37652012000100002 %X let j be a positive integer. for each integer n > j we consider the connectedness locus mn of the family of polynomials pc(z) = zn - czn-j, where c is a complex parameter. we prove that limn¡ú¡Þ mn = d in the hausdorff topology, where d is the unitary closed disk {c;|c|<1}. %K julia set %K connectedness locus %K hyperbolic components %K principal components. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652012000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en