postcritical

English

Alternative forms

• post-critical

Etymology

From post- +‎ critical.

Adjective

postcritical (not comparable)

1. Following criticism; after all criticism has ended
2. (mathematics) Pertaining to the set of all images of the critical points of a function.
   • 2015, Carlos Cabrera, Peter Makienko, “On hyperbolic metric and asymptotically finite invariant differentials in holomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Given a rational map $R$, we consider the complement of the postcritical set $S_{R}$.