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In a seminal paper, Viana built examples of maps presenting two positive Lyapunov exponents exploring skew-products of a (uniformly) expanding map and a quadratic map (order 2 critical point) perturbed by some level of noise. Here we extend that construction replacing the quadratic underlying dynamics by maps with a more degenerated critical point.
We prove that a "positive probability" subset of the boundary of the set of hyperbolic (Axiom A) surface diffeomorphisms with no cycles $\mathcal{H}$ is constituted by Kupka-Smale diffeomorphisms: all periodic points are hyperbolic and their invariant manifolds intersect transversally. Lack of hyperbolicity arises from the presence of a tangency between a stable manifold and an unstable manifold, one of which is not associated to a periodic point. All these diffeomorphisms that we construct lie on the boundary of the same connected component of $\mathcal{H}$.