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Dynamics of conservative Bykov cycles: tangencies, generalized cocoon bifurcations and elliptic solutions

Dynamical Systems 2015-11-30 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a mechanism for the coexistence of hyperbolic and non-hyperbolic dynamics arising in a neighbourhood of a conservative Bykov cycle where trajectories turn in opposite directions near the two saddle-foci. We show that {within the class of divergence-free vector fields that preserve the cycle,} tangencies of the invariant manifolds of two hyperbolic saddle-foci densely occur. The global dynamics is persistently dominated by heteroclinic tangencies and by the existence of infinitely many elliptic points coexisting with suspended hyperbolic horseshoes. A generalized version of the Cocoon bifurcations for conservative systems is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08648,
  title  = {Dynamics of conservative Bykov cycles: tangencies, generalized cocoon bifurcations and elliptic solutions},
  author = {Mario Bessa and Alexandre Rodrigues},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08648},
  year   = {2015}
}