Fractal analysis of hyperbolic saddles with applications

In this paper we express the Minkowski dimension of spiral trajectories near hyperbolic saddles and semi-hyperbolic singularities in terms of the Minkowski dimension of intersections of such spirals with transversals near these singularities. We apply these results to hyperbolic saddle-loops and hyperbolic $2$-cycles to obtain upper bounds on the cyclicity of such limit periodic sets.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure

Invariance of the normalized Minkowski content with respect to the ambient space

It is easy to show that the lower and the upper box dimensions of a bounded set in Euclidean space are invariant with respect to the ambient space. In this article we show that the Minkowski content of a Minkowski measurable set is also invariant with respect to the ambient space when normalized by an appropriate constant. In other words, the value of the normalized Minkowski content of a bounded, Minkowski measurable set is intrinsic to the set.Comment: 11 pages, 0 figure

Multiplicity of fixed points and growth of epsilon-neighbourhoods of orbits

We study the relationship between the multiplicity of a fixed point of a function g, and the dependence on epsilon of the length of epsilon-neighborhood of any orbit of g, tending to the fixed point. The relationship between these two notions was discovered before (Elezovic, Zubrinic, Zupanovic) in the differentiable case, and related to the box dimension of the orbit. Here, we generalize these results to non-differentiable cases introducing a new notion of critical Minkowski order. We study the space of functions having a development in a Chebyshev scale and use multiplicity with respect to this space of functions. With the new definition, we recover the relationship between multiplicity of fixed points and the dependence on epsilon of the length of epsilon-neighborhoods of orbits in non-differentiable cases. Applications include in particular Poincare maps near homoclinic loops and hyperbolic 2-cycles, and Abelian integrals. This is a new approach to estimate the cyclicity, by computing the length of the epsilon-neighborhood of one orbit of the Poincare map (for example numerically), and by comparing it to the appropriate scale.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Journal of Differential Equation