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

    2025, Volume 30, Number 1, pp.  9-25

    Author(s): Gonchenko S. V., Gordeeva O. V.

    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
    Citation: Gonchenko S. V., Gordeeva O. V., On the Structure of Orbits from a Neighborhood of a Transversal Homoclinic Orbit to a Nonhyperbolic Fixed Point, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2025, Volume 30, Number 1, pp. 9-25



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