Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2022
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the Newton maps for arbitrary polynomials. Let p be an arbitrary polynomial with at least three distinct roots, and f be its Newton map. It is shown that the boundary
$\partial B$
of any immediate root basin B of f is locally connected. Moreover,
$\partial B$
is a Jordan curve if and only if
$\mathrm {deg}(f|_B)=2$
. This implies that the boundaries of all components of root basins, for the Newton maps for all polynomials, from the viewpoint of topology, are tame.