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Mildly dissipative diffeomorphisms of the disk with zero entropy

Dynamical Systems 2023-02-14 v3

Abstract

We discuss the dynamics of smooth diffeomorphisms of the disc with vanishing topological entropy which satisfy the mild dissipation property introduced in [CP]. In particular it contains the H\'enon maps with Jacobian up to 1/4. We prove that these systems are either (generalized) Morse Smale or infinitely renormalizable. In particular we prove for this class of diffeomorphisms a conjecture of Tresser: any diffeomorphism in the interface between the sets of systems with zero and positive entropy admits doubling cascades. This generalizes for these surface dynamics a well known consequence of Sharkovskii's theorem for interval maps.

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@article{arxiv.2005.14278,
  title  = {Mildly dissipative diffeomorphisms of the disk with zero entropy},
  author = {Sylvain Crovisier and Enrique Pujals and Charles Tresser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14278},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This updated version has been accepted for publication in Acta Mathematica

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