Root laminations of arbitrary degree

This paper studies the space of degree $d>1$ invariant q-laminations, i.e., geodesic laminations invariant under the $d$-tupling map of the circle and associated with equivalence relations. Our main construction associates a q-lamination with any degree $d$ critical portrait \emph{in a canonical way}. Even though somewhat technical, this is the initial step in the program of classification of all degree $d$ invariant q-laminations.