Superstable periodic orbits of 1D maps under quasi-periodic forcing and reducibility loss (Q379735)

The authors studied the significance of reducibility on the period doubling cascade in their previous papers [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Ser. B 17, No. 5, 1507--1535 (2012; Zbl 1256.37011); Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 23, No. 4, Article ID 1350072, 11 p. (2013; Zbl 1270.37029)]. In the paper reviewed here, the authors show that there exist both reducibility and non-reducibility regions in the parameter space close to parameters corresponding to maps with superstable periodic orbits. They study curves in the parameter space on the boundary of the reducibility and non-reducibility regions (reducibility loss bifurcation curves) and prove under some conditions that each superattracting point of the original map gives rise to two reducibility loss bifurcation curves. Therefore the reducibility loss bifurcation curves exist for the entire cascade.