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Symmetric Cubic Laminations

To investigate the degree $d$ connectedness locus, Thur\-ston studied \emph{$σ_d$-invariant laminations}, where $σ_d$ is the $d$-tupling map on the unit circle, and built a topological model for the space of quadratic polynomials $f(z) = z^2 +c$. In the spirit of Thurston's work, we consider the space of all \emph{cubic symmetric polynomials} $f_λ(z)=z^3+λ^2 z$ in a series of three articles. In the present paper, the first in the series, we construct a lamination $C_sCL$ together with the induced factor space ${\mathbb{S}}/C_sCL$ of the unit circle ${\mathbb{S}}$. As will be verified in the third paper of the series, ${\mathbb{S}}/C_sCL$ is a monotone model of the \emph{cubic symmetric connected locus}, i.e. the space of all cubic symmetric polynomials with connected Julia sets.