Homoclinic bifurcations of endomorphisms: The codimension one case (Q1808586)

This paper deals with homoclinic bifurcation cases generated by a sufficiently smooth generic one-parameter family of endomorphisms \(f\) (i.e. non-invertible maps). Due to the map non-invertibility, it is worth noting that a fixed point may have several rank-one preimages. Then generally the increasing rank preimages of a repelling fixed point (or a period-\(k\) cycle) give rise to an arborescent sequence of points, constituting the stable set of this point (or cycle). The fixed point being repelling (the moduli of all its multipliers being higher than one), it results that this arborescent sequence of preimages is made up of homoclinic points. The author's purpose is to present a theorem about the dynamics bifurcation induced, when we unfold a quadratic degenerate homoclinic point of the family of non-invertible maps. The proof is made by using a rescaling method. It shows the existence of expanding curves, related to a given rank \(N\) of a preimage of a repelling fixed point, invariant by a power \(f^h\) of the map (\(h\) successive applications of the map), \(h\) depending on the preimage rank \(N\). The map power, restricted to such an invariant curve, is conjugated to the one-dimensional quadratic map (Myrberg's map). A corollary states the existence of abundance of strange expanding sets, for parameter values in a sufficiently small neighborhood of the bifurcation situation. Page 81, the definition of an \(n\)-periodic point \(f^n(p)= p\), must be completed by \(f^r(p)\neq p\), \(r<n\).