Attractors with irrational rotation number (Q2898403)

The authors consider a dissipative orientation-preserving homeomorphism of the plane having a point attractor with an unbounded basin of attraction. The restriction of the map to this basin has a well-defined rotation number, derived from the Carathéodory theory of prime ends. The authors show that if the rotation number is irrational, then such a restriction induces a Denjoy homeomorphism in the space of prime ends. Several examples of maps in this class are presented. This work is a continuation of a previous work by two of the authors on the connections between rotation numbers and stability theory.