Abstract:
We provide a computer-assisted proof of one of the central open questions in one-dimensional renormalization theory – universality of the golden-mean Siegel disks. We further show that for every function in the stable manifold of the golden-mean renormalization fixed point the boundary of the Siegel disk is a quasicircle which coincides with the closure of the critical orbit, and that the dynamics on the boundary of the Siegel disk is rigid. Furthermore, we extend the renormalization from one-dimensional analytic maps with a golden-mean Siegel disk to two-dimensional dissipative Hénon-like maps and show that the renormalization hyperbolicity result still holds in this setting.
Key words and phrases:renormalization, universality, Siegel disk, Henon-like map.