Nonexistence of wandering domains for strongly dissipative infinitely renormalizable Hénon maps at the boundary of chaos (Q2288425)

From its appearance in the seminal paper [\textit{M. Hénon}, Commun. Math. Phys. 50, 69--76 (1976; Zbl 0576.58018)], Hénon maps have attracted the attention of a big number of specialists in discrete dynamics, in part because these maps can be considered as an intermediate step between the dynamics of one-dimensional and two-dimensional scenarios. In this sense, the main result of the present paper under claims the non-existence of wandering domains (a nonempty open set \(J\) whose orbit \((F^n(J))_{n\geq 0}\) is disjoint from the stable manifolds of the periodic points) for Hénon-like maps \(F(x,y)=(f(x)-\epsilon(x,y), x)\), where \(f\) is a unimodal map and \(\epsilon\) is a small perturbation, in the case in which \(F\) is strongly dissipative (the Jacobian \(\left|\frac{\partial\epsilon}{\partial y}\right|\) is small) and infinitely period-doubling renormalizable. In this way, the author solves open problems posed in [\textit{S. van Strien}, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 27, No. 2, 557--588 (2010; Zbl 1214.37035); \textit{M. Lyubich} and \textit{M. Martens}, Invent. Math. 186, No. 1, 115--189 (2011; Zbl 1243.37035)]. The idea of the proof is inspired by the degenerate case (\(\epsilon=0\)), when the dynamics of \(F\) degenerates to the dynamics of the unimodal map \(f\). In fact, the author gives a new and short proof of the non-existence of wandering intervals for infinitely renormalizable unimodal maps by identifying unimodal maps with degenerate Hénon-like maps. Taking as reference the degenerate case, the author divides in a ingenious and elegant way the phase space in two regions, good and bad regions, according to the grade of similarity of the behaviour of \(F\) as a unimodal map. It is worth mentioning that the paper is well structured and presents an appropriate number of figures in order to follow and understand correctly its development. Also, it is important to stress that as a consequence of the main result, the union of the stable manifolds of the periodic points is dense. In conclusion, the paper is a good piece on the study of two-dimensional dynamics of Hénon-like maps. It enriches the literature concerning the subject of wandering domains in low dimensions and, probably, will stimulate the analysis of other similar systems.