Criteria on existence of horseshoes near homoclinic tangencies of arbitrary orders

Sergey Gonchenko*, Ming-Chia Li, Mikhail Malkin

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Abstract

Consider (m + 1)-dimensional, m ≥ 1, diffeomorphisms that have a saddle fixed point O with m-dimensional stable manifold Ws(O), one-dimensional unstable manifold Wu(O), and with the saddle value σ different from 1. We assume that Ws(O) and Wu(O) are tangent at the points of some homoclinic orbit and we let the order of tangency be arbitrary. In the case when σ < 1, we prove necessary and sufficient conditions of existence of topological horseshoes near homoclinic tangencies. In the case when σ > 1, we also obtain the criterion of existence of horseshoes under the additional assumption that the homoclinic tangency is simple.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)441-463
Number of pages23
JournalDynamical Systems
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jul 2018

Keywords

  • chaotic dynamics
  • criteria of chaos
  • Homoclinic tangency
  • regular dynamics
  • topological horseshoes

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