Common homoclinic points of commuting toral automorphisms (Q1969007)

The homoclinic points of the hyperbolic automorphisms of the \(n\)-torus are studied. It is supposed that the automorphisms commute so that they determine a \(Z^2\)-action which is assumed irreducible. Then it is shown that every two automorphisms either have exactly the same homoclinic points or have no homoclinic points except 0 itself. The case of a compact connected abelian group is considered separately and the results are compared with those obtained for nonabelian compact groups.