Le problème de la finitude du nombre de cycles limites
We show that in normalized families of polynomial or rational maps, Misiurewicz maps (critically finite or infinite) unfold generically. For example, if is critically finite with non-degenerate critical point such that are hyperbolic periodic points for i = 1,...,n, then IV-1. Age impartible......................................................................................................................................................................... 31 is a local diffeomorphism...
We consider bifurcation problems associated with some lower semicontinuous functionals that do not satisfy the usual regularity assumptions. For such functionals it is possible to define a generalized "Hessian form" and to show that certain eigenvalues of this one are bifurcation values. The results are applied to a bifurcation problem for elliptic variational inequalities.