arXiv · 1205.1023
Collision, explosion and collapse of homoclinic classes
Abstract
Homoclinic classes of generic $C^1$-diffeomorphisms are maximal transitive sets and pairwise disjoint. We here present a model explaining how two different homoclinic classes may intersect, failing to be disjoint. For that we construct a one-parameter family of diffeomorphisms $(g_s)_{s\in [-1,1]}$ with hyperbolic points $P$ and $Q$ having nontrivial homoclinic classes, such that, for $s>0$, the classes of $P$ and $Q$ are disjoint, for $s<0$, they are equal, and, for $s=0$, their intersection is a saddle-node.
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Lorenzo Diaz, Bianca Santoro. 2012-05-04. Collision, explosion and collapse of homoclinic classes. https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715%2F17%2F3%2F013
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