preprint-author: 
A. Epstein
preprint-title: 
Infinitesimal Thurston Rigidity and the Fatou-Shishikura Inequality
preprint-abstract: 

We prove a refinement of the Fatou-Shishikura Inequality - that the total count of nonrepelling cycles of a rational map is less than or equal to the number of independent infinite forward critical orbits - from a suitable application of Thurston's Rigidity Theorem - the injectivity of $I-f_*$ on spaces of meromorphic quadratic differentials.

preprint-year: 
1999