Stable manifolds, Horseshoes and Lyapunov exponents for $C^1$ diffeomorphisms without domination

Abstract

We develop the nonuniformly hyperbolic theory for $C^1$ diffeomorphisms admitting continuous invariant splitting without domination. This framework includes stable manifold theorems, shadowing and closing lemmas, the existence of horseshoes and the approximation of Lyapunov exponents. The foundation is a new family of resonance blocks, each arising as the forward limit set of a typical point at carefully chosen resonance times where expansion, contraction and a weak scale-dependent domination coexist.