A global perspective for non-conservative dynamics
A proof of the stability conjecture
A stretched exponential bound on the rate of growth of the number of periodic points for prevalent diffeomorphisms. I.
A stretched exponential bound on the rate of growth of the number of periodic points for prevalent diffeomorphisms. II.
Abundance of hyperbolicity in the topology
An extension of the Artin-Mazur theorem.
Attracting dynamics of exponential maps.
C¹ stability of endomorphisms on two-dimensional manifolds
A set of necessary conditions for C¹ stability of noninvertible maps is presented. It is proved that the conditions are sufficient for C¹ stability in compact oriented manifolds of dimension two. An example given by F. Przytycki in 1977 is shown to satisfy these conditions. It is the first example known of a C¹ stable map (noninvertible and nonexpanding) in a manifold of dimension two, while a wide class of examples are already known in every other dimension.
C¹ stable maps: examples without saddles
We give here the first examples of C¹ structurally stable maps on manifolds of dimension greater than two that are neither diffeomorphisms nor expanding. It is shown that an Axiom A endomorphism all of whose basic pieces are expanding or attracting is C¹ stable. A necessary condition for the existence of such examples is also given.
C¹-maps having hyperbolic periodic points
We show that the C¹-interior of the set of maps satisfying the following conditions: (i) periodic points are hyperbolic, (ii) singular points belonging to the nonwandering set are sinks, coincides with the set of Axiom A maps having the no cycle property.
Contracting singular cycles
Controllability properties of a class of systems modeling swimming microscopic organisms
We consider a finite-dimensional model for the motion of microscopic organisms whose propulsion exploits the action of a layer of cilia covering its surface. The model couples Newton's laws driving the organism, considered as a rigid body, with Stokes equations governing the surrounding fluid. The action of the cilia is described by a set of controlled velocity fields on the surface of the organism. The first contribution of the paper is the proof that such a system is generically controllable...
Critical points of the steady state of a Fokker-Planck equation.
Crossover collision of scroll wave filaments.
Dynamiques génériques : hyperbolicité et transitivité
Generic and stability properties of reciprocal and pseudogradient vector fields
Generic diffeomorphisms on compact surfaces
We discuss the remaining obstacles to prove Smale's conjecture about the C¹-density of hyperbolicity among surface diffeomorphisms. Using a C¹-generic approach, we classify the possible pathologies that may obstruct the C¹-density of hyperbolicity. We show that there are essentially two types of obstruction: (i) persistence of infinitely many hyperbolic homoclinic classes and (ii) existence of a single homoclinic class which robustly exhibits homoclinic tangencies. In the course of our discussion,...
Generic observability of dynamical systems.
Généricité d'exposants de Lyapunov non-nuls pour des produits déterministes de matrices
Homoclinic bifurcations and uniform hyperbolicity for three-dimensional flows