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Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 2025 Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 9–25 (Mi rcd1293)

On the Structure of Orbits from a Neighborhood of a Transversal Homoclinic Orbit to a Nonhyperbolic Fixed Point

Sergey V. Gonchenkoab, Ol'ga V. Gordeevab

a Laboratory of Dynamical Systems and Applications, National Research University Higher School of Economics, ul. Bolshaya Pecherskaya 25/12, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
b Mathematical Center “Mathematics of Future Technologies”, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, pr. Gagarina 23, 603022 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Abstract: We consider a one-parameter family $f_\mu$ of multidimensional diffeomorphisms such that for $\mu=0$ the diffeomorphism $f_0$ has a transversal homoclinic orbit to a nonhyperbolic fixed point of arbitrary finite order $n\geqslant 1$ of degeneracy, and for $\mu>0$ the fixed point becomes a hyperbolic saddle. In the paper, we give a complete description of the structure of the set $N_\mu$ of all orbits entirely lying in a sufficiently small fixed neighborhood of the homoclinic orbit. Moreover, we show that for $\mu\geqslant 0$ the set $N_\mu$ is hyperbolic (for $\mu=0$ it is nonuniformly hyperbolic) and the dynamical system $f_\mu\bigl|_{N_\mu}$ (the restriction of $f_\mu$ to $N_\mu$) is topologically conjugate to a certain nontrivial subsystem of the topological Bernoulli scheme of two symbols.

Keywords: saddle-node, nonhyperbolic saddle, homoclinic orbit, hyperbolic set, topological Bernoulli scheme, one-dimensional map

MSC: 37G10, 37G25

Received: 28.11.2024
Accepted: 13.01.2025

Language: English

DOI: 10.1134/S1560354725010022



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