Takens Theorem for nonautonomous partially hyperbolic dynamical systems

Abstract

Takens Theorem for a partially hyperbolic dynamics provides a normal linearization along the center manifold. In this paper, we give the nonautonomous version of Takens Theorem under non-resonance conditions formulated in terms of the dichotomy spectrum. In our proof, one difficulty is to solve homological equations for the normal form theory which involve a center variable, while another difficulty is to find the dichotomy spectrum of a certain matrix cocycle that is block lower triangular. In order to overcome those difficulties, in comparison with the autonomous case, we need an additional term in the (nonautonomous) non-resonance conditions to guarantee certain spectral gap conditions. This additional term disappears naturally in the autonomous case.

Revised version. Accepted for publication in Science China Mathematics