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Homoclinic tangencies with infinitely many asymptotically stable single-round periodic solutions

Dynamical Systems 2020-12-10 v2

Abstract

We consider a homoclinic orbit to a saddle fixed point of an arbitrary CC^\infty map ff on R2\mathbb{R}^2 and study the phenomenon that ff has an infinite family of asymptotically stable, single-round periodic solutions. From classical theory, this requires ff to have a homoclinic tangency. We show it also necessary for ff to satisfy a `global resonance' condition and for the eigenvalues associated with the fixed point, λ\lambda and σ\sigma, to satisfy λσ=1|\lambda \sigma| = 1. The phenomenon is codimension-three in the case λσ=1\lambda \sigma = -1, but codimension-four in the case λσ=1\lambda \sigma = 1 because here the coefficients of the leading-order resonance terms associated with ff at the fixed point must add to zero. We also identify conditions sufficient for the phenomenon to occur, illustrate the results for an abstract family of maps, and show numerically computed basins of attraction.

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@article{arxiv.2006.01405,
  title  = {Homoclinic tangencies with infinitely many asymptotically stable single-round periodic solutions},
  author = {S. S. Muni and R. I. McLachlan and D. J. W. Simpson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01405},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures