Poincaré's homoclinic density conjecture

Let MM be a compact surface, let Diffμr(M)\operatorname{Diff}_\mu^r(M) denote the space of CrC^r area-preserving diffeomorphisms of MM, and let Ws(p)W^s(p) and Wu(p)W^u(p) be the stable and unstable manifolds of a hyperbolic periodic point pp. A point in Ws(p)Wu(p)W^s(p)\cap W^u(p) is a homoclinic point of pp. A subset RR is residual if it contains a countable intersection of open dense subsets. Poincaré's homoclinic density conjecture. There exists a residual set RDiffμr(M)R\subset\operatorname{Diff}_\mu^r(M) such that, if fRf\in R and pp is a hyperbolic periodic point of ff, then the homoclinic points of pp are dense in both stable and unstable manifolds of pp. Equivalently, for every segment JJ in Ws(p)W^s(p) or Wu(p)W^u(p),

Ws(p)Wu(p)J=J.\overline{W^s(p)\cap W^u(p)\cap J}=J.

The conjecture is presented as one of Poincaré's two fundamental conjectures on generic area-preserving surface dynamics; the supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Zhihong Xia, “Area-Preserving Surface Diffeomorphisms”, arXiv:math/0503223 (2005).

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