Homoclinic tangencies versus uniform hyperbolicity for conservative 3-flows

We prove that a volume-preserving three-dimensional flow can be C¹-approximated by a volume-preserving Anosov flow or else by another volume-preserving flow exhibiting a homoclinic tangency. This proves the conjecture of Palis for conservative 3-flows and with respect to the C¹-topology.     

On cascades of elliptic periodic points in two-dimensional symplectic maps with homoclinic tangencies

We study bifurcations of two-dimensional symplectic maps with quadratic homoclinic tangencies and prove results on the existence of cascade of elliptic periodic points for one and two parameter general unfoldings.      

Homoclinic period blow-up in reversible and conservative systems

We show that in conservative systems each non-degenerate homoclinic orbit asymptotic to a hyperbolic equilibrium possesses an associated family of periodic orbits. The family is parametrized by the period, and the periodic orbits accumulate on the homoclinic orbit as the period tends to infinity. A similar result holds for symmetric homoclinic orbits in reversible systems. Our results extend earlier work by Devaney and Henrard, and provide a positive answer to a conjecture of Strömgren. We present a unified approach to both the conservative and the reversible case, based on a technique introduced recently by X.-B. Lin.Dedicated to Prof. Klaus Kirchgässner on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday     

A general high order two-dimensional panel method

We develop an efficient and high order panel method with applications in airfoil design. Through the use of analytic work and careful considerations near singularities our approach is quadrature-free. The resulting method is examined with respect to accuracy and efficiency and we discuss the different trade-offs in approximation order and computational complexity. A reference implementation within a package for a two-dimensional fast multipole method is distributed freely.     

Invariant surfaces of standard two-dimensional systems with conservative first approximation of the third order

We simultaneously study two classes of two-dimensional time-periodic systems of differential equations with a small positive parameter, namely, systems with “slow” or “fast” time whose first-approximation systems are autonomous and conservative and do not contain terms of order higher than three. Thus, the corresponding unperturbed systems have one, two, or three rest points.For the perturbations, we indicate explicit conditions, independent of the small parameter, under which every original system of either class with coefficients three times continuously differentiable with respect to the phase variables and the parameter in a neighborhood of zero has finitely many two-dimensional invariant surfaces homeomorphic to tori for all sufficiently small parameter values. We also give formulas for these surfaces.     

Homoclinic solutions of some second order non-autonomous systems

In this paper we investigate the existence of homoclinic solutions for the following second order non-autonomous system

where A is an antisymmetric constant matrix, is a symmetric and positive definite matrix for all , W(t,q)=a(t)V(q) such that is a continuous function and . Assuming that V(q) is subquadratic as q→+∞ and some technical assumptions on A and L, we establish two existence criteria to guarantee that (DS) has at least one nontrivial homoclinic solution by using a standard minimizing argument. Besides that, in some particular case, for the first time the uniqueness of homoclinic solutions of (DS) is also obtained. Recent results in the literature are generalized and significantly improved.     

On the regularization of conservative maps

We show that smooth maps are C ¹-dense among C ¹ volume-preserving maps.     

Plane polar Cremona maps of arbitrarily large degree in positive characteristic

Geometriae Dedicata - A result of I.V. Dolgachev states that the complex homaloidal polynomials in three variables, i.e. the complex homogeneous polynomials whose polar map is birational, are of...     

Bifurcations of three-dimensional diffeomorphisms with non-simple quadratic homoclinic tangencies and generalized Hénon maps

We study bifurcations of periodic orbits in two parameter general unfoldings of a certain type homoclinic tangency (called a generalized homoclinic tangency) to a saddle fixed point. We apply the rescaling technique to first return (Poincaré) maps and show that the rescaled maps can be brought to so-called generalized Hénon maps which have non-degenerate bifurcations of fixed points including those with multipliers e ^±iϕ . On the basis of this, we prove the existence of infinite cascades of periodic sinks and periodic stable invariant circles.      

Unimodal maps as boundary restrictions of two-dimensional full-folding maps

It is shown that every unimodal map is realized as a restriction of a simple map defined on the unit disc to a part of its boundary. Our two-dimensional map is called a full-folding map, which is defined generally on a compact metric space. It is a generalization of the full tent map in that it has two homeomorphic inverse maps and thus every non-critical point has two inverse images.     

On the multioperator method for constructing approximations and finite difference schemes of an arbitrarily high order

Main results of the development of the multioperator method for constructing approximations of prescribed order are presented. Multioperators for various approximation problems are considered. The focus is on the multioperators for convective terms in fluid dynamics equations. Types of multioperator schemes are described and possibilities for their optimization are discussed. Results of solving benchmark problems in the case of tenth- and 18th-order schemes are presented.     

Homoclinic solutions for a class of second order Hamiltonian systems

In this paper, we study homoclinic solutions for the nonperiodic second order Hamiltonian systems where L is unnecessarily coercive or uniformly positively definite, and is only locally defined near the origin with respect to u. Under some general conditions on L and W, we show that the above system has infinitely many homoclinic solutions near the origin. Some related results in the literature are extended and generalized.     

Enumeration of order preserving maps

Three results are obtained concerning the number of order preserving maps of an n-element partially ordered set to itself. We show that any such ordered set has at least 2 ^2n/3 order preserving maps (and 2 ² in the case of length one). Precise asymptotic estimates for the numbers of self-maps of crowns and fences are also obtained. In addition, lower bounds for many other infinite families are found and several precise problems are formulated.Supported by ONR Contract N00014-85-K-0769.Supported by NSF Grant DMS-9011850.Supported by NSERC Grants 69-3378 and 69-0259.     

Homoclinic solutions for a class of the second order Hamiltonian systems

We study the existence of homoclinic orbits for the second order Hamiltonian system , where q∈Rⁿ and V∈C¹(R×Rⁿ,R), V(t,q)=-K(t,q)+W(t,q) is T-periodic in t. A map K satisfies the “pinching” condition b₁|q|²?K(t,q)?b₂|q|², W is superlinear at the infinity and f is sufficiently small in L²(R,Rⁿ). A homoclinic orbit is obtained as a limit of 2kT-periodic solutions of a certain sequence of the second order differential equations.