Renormalization in the Hénon family. II: The heteroclinic web (Q644771)

This substantial work extends the renormalisation theory of highly dissipative Hénon maps with zero entropy. In parameter space, these maps are separated from those with positive entropy by the set of infinitely renormalizable maps. The latter form a curve in the Hénon family, parametrized by the average Jacobian. The authors show that the Jacobian is a topological invariant: varying it leads to bifurcations of the heteroclicnic web of stable and unstable manifolds of the periodic points of the saddle type. Futhermore, the unstable manifolds form a lamination outside the attracting Cantor set if and only if there are no heteroclinic tangencies. The authors also prove that the Morse-Smale maps are dense among the zero-entropy maps, and feature infinitely many different topological types.