Homoclinic tangencies and hyperbolicity for surface diffeomorphisms.
We prove that for every ϵ > 0 there exists a minimal diffeomorphism f: ² → ² of class and semiconjugate to an ergodic translation with the following properties: zero entropy, sensitivity to initial conditions, and Li-Yorke chaos. These examples are obtained through the holonomy of the unstable foliation of Mañé’s example of a derived-from-Anosov diffeomorphism on ³.
We show that any diffeomorphism of a compact manifold can be approximated by diffeomorphisms exhibiting a homoclinic tangency or by diffeomorphisms having a partial hyperbolic structure.
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