Lin's method for discrete dynamical systems (Q4522360)

Suppose that \(f\) is smooth enough and the difference equation \[ x(n+1)=f(x(n),\lambda) \] has for \(\lambda=0\) a homoclinic solution \(\gamma\), asymptotic to \(x=p\), where \(x=p\) is a hyperbolic fixed point of the above equation. To study the dynamics in a neighborhood of the orbit \(\Gamma\) of \(\gamma\), the author uses \textit{X.-B. Lin}'s method [Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., Sect. A 116, No. 3/4, 295-325 (1990; Zbl 0714.34070)]. In the first step, existence and uniqueness of special orbits \(\gamma^+\) and \(\gamma^-\) lying in a stable and unstable manifold, respectively, are established. In the second step, the existence of the solution \(x_i\) of the equation is obtained, starting near a given \(q \in \Gamma\), following \(\gamma^+\) up to a small neighborhood of \(p\), then following \(\gamma^-\) and finally, after \(N_i\) steps, arriving near \(q\) again. So, the author finds solutions close to \(\Gamma\), by solving the bifurcation equations.