Lan Wen 

(Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 
visiting from Peking University, China) 

Minimally Nonhyperbolic Sets for Diffeomorphisms C1 away from Homoclinic Bifurcations

 

Abstract

Palis conjectures that diffeomorphisms with a homoclinic tangency or a heterodimensional cycle are C1 dense in the complement of the C1 closure of hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. We prove some results towards the conjecture: C1 away from homoclinic tangencies and heterodimensional cycles, a C1 generic diffeomorphism must have no simple minimally nonhyperbolic sets, and any nonsimple minimally nonhyperbolic set, if exists, must be very special.
 
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