On geometrically finite degenerations II: convergence and divergence

In this paper, we study quasi post-critically finite degenerations for rational maps. We construct limits for such degenerations as geometrically finite rational maps on a finite tree of Riemann spheres. We prove the boundedness for such degenerations of hyperbolic rational maps with Sierpinski carpet Julia set and give criteria for the convergence for quasi-Blaschke products Q B d \mathcal {QB}_d , making progress towards the analogues of Thurston’s compactness theorem for acylindrical 3 3 -manifold and the double limit theorem for quasi-Fuchsian groups in complex dynamics. In the appendix, we apply such convergence results to show the existence of certain polynomial matings.