Abstract:
We study bifurcations of periodic orbits in two parameter general unfoldings of a certain type homoclinic tangency (called a generalized homoclinic tangency) to a saddle fixed point. We apply the rescaling technique to first return (Poincaré) maps and show that the rescaled maps can be brought to so-called generalized Hénon maps which have non-degenerate bifurcations of fixed points including those with multipliers $e^{\pm i \phi}$. On the basis of this, we prove the existence of infinite cascades of periodic sinks and periodic stable invariant circles.