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arxiv: 2606.09207 · v1 · pith:UB5UPNNInew · submitted 2026-06-08 · 🧮 math.DS · math-ph· math.MP

Many coexisting attractors, a case study of the almost-conservative H\'enon map

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For dynamical systems in the plane, there can be many periodic attractors coexisting in a bounded region. They become easier to find in systems with small dissipation, which we call ``almost-conservative''. We ask what happens when there are many periodic attractors. That is the vague question we start with. For a test study, we chose the H\'enon map with a tiny dissipation. We tuned the other parameter to yield a case with 50 attracting periodic orbits. They have a total of 4259 periodic points. We describe how these orbits can be organized into families. In addition to two low-period orbits, the remaining 48 orbits can be classified into three families, which we describe in detail.

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