Real methods in complex dynamics

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This article is a survey of complex dynamics in higher dimensions. It is divided in 4 lectures. The first one gives an historical motivation of the subject (Newton's method and celestial mechanics) and some background of one dimensional dynamics. The second part concerns the higher dimension situation. One may find the classical results on the local behaviour of germs of holomorphic maps near a fixed-point, in the resonant and nonresonant cases, with a study of the random iteration situation. Some geometric properties of the Fatou sets are also discussed. The two last lectures are devoted to Hénon maps. The author presents the proof of the fact that periodic saddle periodic points are dense in \(J^*\), the support of the equilibrium measure. This theorem was proved by \textit{E. Bedford, M. Lyubich} and \textit{J. Smillie} [Invent. Math. 114, 277--288 (1993; Zbl 0799.58039)]. The author focusses on the real methods that are used in their proof, especially a classical theorem of A. Katok concerning nonuniformly hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. The last section is devoted to the problem of uniform hyperbolicity for Hénon maps. The author proves that if \(f\) is volume decreasing and if the orbits in \(J = J^+ \cap J^-\) are ``sustainable, then \(f\) is hyperbolic on \(J\). This improves a former result dealing with the hyperbolicity of \(f\) on the smaller subset \(J^*\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1052.32002].











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