Chaotic dynamics of three-dimensional Hénon maps that originate from a homoclinic bifurcation

Abstract

We study bifurcations of a three-dimensional diffeomorphism, $g_0$, that has a quadratic homoclinic tangency to a saddle-focus fixed point with multipliers $(λe^{i\vphi}, λe^{-i\vphi}, γ)$, where $0<\lambda <1<|\gamma |$ and $|{\lambda }^2\gamma |=1$. We show that in a three-parameter family, $g_{\eps}$, of diffeomorphisms close to $g_0$, there exist infinitely many open regions near $\eps =0$ where the corresponding normal form of the first return map to a neighborhood of a homoclinic point is a three-dimensional Hénon-like map. This map possesses, in some parameter regions, a "wild-hyperbolic" Lorenz-type strange attractor. Thus, we show that this homoclinic bifurcation leads to a strange attractor. We also discuss the place that these three-dimensional Hénon maps occupy in the class of quadratic volume-preserving diffeomorphisms.

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