Blenders near polynomial product maps of \(\mathbb{C}^2\) (Q824406)

Summary: In this paper we show that if \(p\) is a polynomial of degree \(d\geq2\) possessing a neutral periodic point then a product map of the form \((z,w) \mapsto (p(z),q(w))\) can be approximated by polynomial skew products \((z,w) \mapsto (\tilde{p}(z,w),q(w))\) possessing special dynamical objects called blenders. Moreover, these objects can be chosen to be of two types: repelling or saddle. As a consequence, such a product map belongs to the closure of the interior of two different sets: the bifurcation locus of the space of holomorphic endomorphisms of degree \(d\) of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) and the set of endomorphisms having an attracting set of non-empty interior. Similar techniques also give the first example of an attractor with non-empty interior or of a saddle hyperbolic set which is robustly contained in the small Julia set and whose unstable manifolds are all dense in \(\mathbb{P}^2\). In an independent part, we use perturbations of Hénon maps to obtain examples of attracting sets with repelling points and also of quasi-attractors which are not attracting sets.