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Article

Rapid Deterioration of Convergence in Taylor Expansions of Linearizing Maps of Hénon Maps at Hyperbolic Fixed Points

by
Koichi Hiraide
1 and
Chihiro Matsuoka
1,2,3,*
1
Osaka Central Advanced Mathematical Institute (OCAMI), Osaka Metropolitan University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
2
Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai 599-8531, Japan
3
Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP), Osaka Metropolitan University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Mathematics 2025, 13(21), 3526; https://doi.org/10.3390/math13213526
Submission received: 16 October 2025 / Revised: 30 October 2025 / Accepted: 31 October 2025 / Published: 3 November 2025
(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that the Taylor expansions of analytic functions appearing in the linearization of quadratic maps at hyperbolic fixed points do not successfully approximate invariant manifolds, such as stable and unstable manifolds, when higher-order terms are truncated. This fact was pointed out by Newhouse et al. in their numerical experiments, and implies that the Taylor expansions are inadequate for quantitatively studying dynamical systems such as quadratic maps. In fact, it is shown that the computational complexity for the approximations by the Taylor expansions grows exponentially.

1. Introduction

The Hénon map f : C 2 C 2 is a quadratic map defined by
f : x , y 1 + y a x 2 , b x ,
where a , b C are parameters, and a 0 , b 0 ([1]). Let P = ( x f , y f ) be one of the fixed points of f, and let α 1 , α 2 be the eigenvalues of the derivative D P f . Throughout this paper, we assume
| α 1 | 1
and set α = α 1 . Then
α 2 λ α b = 0
holds, where λ = 2 a x f . Two cases occur: 0 < | α | < 1 and | α | > 1 . We recall that P is hyperbolic when | α 2 | 1 in addition. If | α | < 1 < | α 2 | or | α 2 | < 1 < | α | , then P is a saddle. This paper treats the case satisfying the following condition:
α α 2 ,
which is more general than the saddle case.
The following result on the linearization of dynamical systems is well-known (cf. [2]).
Proposition 1. 
(Poincaré [3]) Under the above assumptions, for any eigenvector v 0 for α, there uniquely exists a holomorphic map P α : C C 2 satisfying P α ( 0 ) = P and P α ( 0 ) = v such that
f P α ( t ) = P α ( α t )
for all t C . Furthermore, P α : C C 2 is injective and for all t C , P α ( t ) 0 .
The map P α : C C 2 in Proposition 1 is called Poincaré’s map. The image
W α ( P ) = P α ( C )
is the invariant manifold associated with  α , which coincides with the stable or unstable manifold when P is a saddle. By Proposition 1, W α ( P ) is actually f-invariant (i.e., f ( W α ( P ) ) = W α ( P ) ) and an injective immersed submanifold of C 2 through P. We equip the intrinsic metric on W α ( P ) induced by P α .
Franceschini and Russo [4] used Poincaré’s map for numerical calculations to detect homoclinic points in the case where a and b are the original Hénon’s parameter values. Also, Fornaess and Gavosto [5,6] investigated the existence of homoclinic tangencies using Poincaré’s map. The existence of higher-dimensional Poincaré’s maps was investigated by Cabré, Fontich, and de la Llave [7,8,9]. Anastassiou, Bountis, and Bäcker [10] used their result to detect homoclinic points for the 4-dimensional maps. Also, Newhouse, Berz, Grote and Makino [11] estimated the topological entropy of the Hénon map using symbolic dynamics via the Taylor models in addition to Poincaré’s map. We emphasize that Poincaré’s maps were expressed in Taylor expansions in those studies.
It is important to clarify how the Taylor expansions work for quantitative studies of dynamical systems, such as numerically calculating the topological entropy or detecting the homoclinic set (cf. [11,12,13]). In this paper, we prove that the computational complexity for the approximations by the Taylor expansions grows exponentially, which is precisely stated as follows.
Theorem 1.
When 0 < | α | < 1 (resp. | α | > 1 ), if the disk centered at P with radius | α | L (resp. | α | L ) in the invariant manifold W α ( P ) with respect to the intrinsic metric is computationally realized with high computational accuracy in C 2 by the map P α , then the order of the truncation terms in the Taylor expansions of P α must be greater than N satisfying the condition
N 2 L ,
where L is a natural number given arbitrarily.
This result implies that the Taylor expansions are inadequate for quantitative studies such as numerically calculating the topological entropy or detecting the homoclinic set, which was pointed out by Newhouse, Berz, Grote, and Makino [11] in their numerical experiments.

2. Main Results

To state the main results of the current paper, we mention the construction of Poincaré’s map P α . For simplicity, let us consider a conjugate map f : C 2 C 2 of the above map by the translation ( x + x 0 , y + y 0 ) ( x , y ) on C 2 sending P to the origin O = ( 0 , 0 ) , i.e.,
f : x , y λ x + y a x 2 , b x .
Set
P α ( s ) = x p ( s ) , y p ( s ) ( s C ) .
Then, from the relation (1), we have
x p ( α t ) λ x p ( s ) b x p ( α 1 s ) = a { x p ( s ) } 2
and y p ( s ) = b x p ( α 1 s ) . Setting a series expansion
x p ( s ) = n = 1 a n s n ,
and substituting this into the above relation (3), we obtain by the coefficient comparison
a n = a D n k = 1 n 1 a k a n k ( n 2 ) ,
where D n = α n λ b α n . Note that the non-resonance condition that D n 0 for all n 2 is assumed here. This condition is automatically satisfied when P is a saddle. The first-order coefficient a 1 is determined by the condition P ( 0 ) = v , and a 1 0 .
Choosing ζ 1 as a branch of log α , we introduce a new variable t C by the transformation
s = e ζ 1 t ,
and define x ( t ) = x p ( s ) . Let y ( t ) = b x ( t 1 ) . We define a holomorphic map S : C C 2 by S ( t ) = ( x ( t ) , y ( t ) ) . Then, from the relation (1), it follows that by the l-th iteration ( l Z ) of f, any point in the invariant manifold W α ( P ) is mapped as follows:
f l S ( t ) = S ( t + l ) .
For each n 1 , let
x n ( t ) = a n e ζ 1 n t .
Then from (4), we have
x ( t ) = x p ( s ) = n = 1 x n ( t ) .
We discuss the convergence of the series (7), assuming that t C are given arbitrarily.

2.1. Rapid Deterioration of Convergence in Taylor Expansions

Write ζ 1 = ζ 1 r + i ζ 1 i and t = t r + i t i in the form of real and imaginary parts. For simplicity, we set
E 1 = log ( | 2 a a 1 | e ζ 1 i t i ) log | α | ,
and let
r α , t = e E 1 log 2 1 t r   log 2 if 0 < | α | < 1 , e E 1 log 2 1 + t r   log 2 if | α | > 1 .
Define a natural number n t as
n t = [ r α , t ] ,
where [ · ] denotes the Gauss’s symbol. We notice that n t grows exponentially with respect to t r , if t r is chosen to be negative when 0 < | α | < 1 , and to be positive when | α | > 1 , respectively.
The purpose of this paper is to give a lower bound to the magnitude of each higher-order term of the series (7) as follows.
Theorem 2.
There exists a constant N 1 such that if n t > N 1 and N 1 < n t + k < 2 n t ( k Z ) are satisfied, and if δ = k / n t is close to zero, then there is ϵ with 0 ϵ n t such that
| x n t + k ( t ) | | α | n t log 2 ( 1 δ 2 2 ) + ϵ if 0 < | α | < 1 , | α | n t log 2 ( 1 δ 2 2 ) ϵ if | α | > 1 .
The above result gives a mathematical description of the fact that the approximation of x p ( s ) described by the Taylor expansion (4) or (7) rapidly deteriorates as the value | s | becomes large when higher-order terms are truncated.
To state how the series (4) converges, let us denote by E N ( s ) the remainder term:
E N ( s ) = n = N a n s n = n = N x n ( t ) , s = e ζ 1 t ,
where N is a natural number. The following estimate holds.
Theorem 3.
Let 0 < | α | < 1 . Then there exists a constant K > 1 such that for every R > 0 , if a natural number N with N > N 1 is large enough, the remainder term E N ( s ) is estimated as
1 2 | 2 a a 1 | N | s | N | α | N log N log 2   | E N ( s ) | 2 K N | s | N | α | N ( log N log   log   N ) log 2
for any s with | s | R , where N 1 is the constant stated in Theorem 2. When | α | > 1 , a similar statement holds if α is replaced with α 1 .
Theorem 1 is obtained from Theorem 3 as follows.
Proof of Theorem 1. 
Let | s | 1 for 0 < | α | < 1 . If the higher-order terms in the series (4) are truncated after N-th, the error E for the point P ( α L s ) is estimated as
E | α | log N log 2 | α L | N
by (11). If the right-hand side of this estimate is small enough, we need the condition that
log N log 2 L > 0 ,
which is equivalent to N > 2 L . Thus, we obtain the necessary condition (2). In the same way as above, we obtain the conclusion for the case of | α | > 1 . The proof of Theorem 1 is complete. □

2.2. Discussion: Beyond Taylor Series

The following examples 1 and 2 specifically illustrate how pessimistic the implications of Theorems 2 and 3 are.
Example 1.
Let 0 t 0 1 be an initial time, and let 0 < | α | < 1 . When l = 10 and t = t 0 + l , we have from (8) that n t = [ r α . t ] 400 (we set E 1 = 0 and t i = 0 ) . Then (9) gives
| x n t ( t 0 10 ) | | α | 400 log 2 | α | 570 .
In this case, the computation is yet computationally feasible. On the other hand, when l = 20 and t = t 0 + l , (8) gives n t 4.4 × 10 5 and by (9) we have
| x n t ( t 0 20 ) |   | α | 4.4 × 10 5 log 2 | α | 6   ×   10 5 ,
which implies that the computation is infeasible.
Example 2.
Here, we present an example of stable and unstable manifolds depicted by using the Taylor expansion (7). Figure 1 shows a chaotic system encircling KAM tori in a symplectic case. We select the eigenvalues α as α = α 1 = e 1.2 for the stable manifold and α = α 2 = e 1.2 for the unstable manifold, respectively. Then, the dynamical parameter b = α 1 α 2 satisfies b = 1 . Also λ and a in (3) are given as λ = 2 cosh ( 1.2 ) and a = 1 + λ / 2 1 2 0.34284 , respectively. For these parameters, one fixed point is elliptic ( | α | = 1 ) and the other is a saddle point. The eigenvalues α 1 and α 2 at the saddle point [ ( x , y ) = ( 0 , 0 ) here] are α 1 = 0.30119 (stable) and α 2 = 3.32012 (unstable). For α = α 1 , the branch ζ 1 is chosen as ζ 1 = 1.2 and the variable t is selected to be real numbers with ranges t 9.65 and t 1.65 by setting a 1 = sinh ( 1.2 ) 2 a and a 1 = sinh ( 1.2 ) 2 a , respectively. When t = 9.65 , (8) gives n t 375 . We similarly choose the branch ζ 1 and the variable t for α = α 2 . In this numerical computation, we take the number of truncation N in the series (7) as N = 4000 . Concentric KAM tori (and periodic orbits) exist inside the chaotic system. The number N 1 in Theorem 2 in this example is N 1 560 for α = α 1 .
To improve the pessimistic situation as stated above, Newhouse, Berz, Grote, and Makino [11] introduced the notion of the Taylor models by restricting the parameter s such that the set { P α ( α s ) } = 0 ( 0 < | α | < 1 ) or { P α ( α s ) } = 0 ( | α | > 1 ) is contained in a given bounded set, in which they rigorously estimated the topological entropy of Hénon maps using symbolic dynamics. See also Ishii [12].
In correspondence to such a development, it has been obtained very recently by the authors that the holomorphic maps f P α , N ( α s ) defined by taking conjugates by iteration maps of the Hénon map and of the derivative give much better approximations of P α theoretically and numerically when the parameter s is restricted as above, where P α , N : C C 2 is the polynomial map with degree N when higher-order terms are truncated from P α .
It is well-known that the method of contraction mappings is useful in studying invariant manifolds and dynamical stability (cf. [14]). Such a method might also work for the approximation of P α theoretically and numerically.
The invariant manifold W α ( P ) can be described by a divergent series called asymptotic expansion in Poincaré’s sense, and a phenomenon similar to the Stokes phenomenon and to differential equation theory occurs. For details, we can refer to Tovbis [15], Lazutkin, Schachmannski and Tabanov [16], Gelfreich and Sauzin [17], Lazutkin, Segur and Hakim [16,18,19], Écalle [20,21,22], Sternin and Shatalov [23], Voros [24], and Matsuoka and Hiraide [13,25,26,27]. The results of those studies have made it possible to quantitatively investigate the dynamical system of the Hénon map f with extremely high precision using computers, which suggests that the asymptotic expansion gives us much better performance than the ones stated in Theorems 2 and 3. The authors hope that the research area will be developed in discrete dynamical systems.

3. Proofs of Theorems 2 and 3

To prove Theorems 2 and 3, we prepare the following Lemmas 1 and 2, which gives sharp estimates on upper and lower bounds to absolute values of the coefficients a n ( n 1 ) (cf. [5,6]). In the following, suppose that 0 < | α | < 1 .
Lemma 1.
There exists a constant K > 1 such that
| a n | < K n | α | n ( log n log log + n ) log 2
holds for all n 1 , where log + n = max { log n , 1 } .
Lemma 2.
There exists a natural number N 1 1 such that
| a n |   | 2 a a 1 | n | α | n log n log 2
holds for all n N 1 .
The above results are stronger than the estimate obtained by Fornaess and Gavosto [5,6] via complex analysis.
Lemmas 1 and 2 also hold for | α | > 1 , if α is replaced with α 1 . The proofs of Lemmas 1 and 2 are provided in Section 4 and Section 5, respectively.
Define a real function
F ( r , t ) = E 1 r + r log r log 2 + t r r ( r 1 ) .
Then, we have
F r ( r α , t , t ) = 0 ,
which is equivalent to the relation (8) because the case of 0 < | α | < 1 is considered. It follows that F ( r , t ) takes its minimum value at r = r α , t for a fixed t.
Let
E 2 = log ( K e ζ 1 i t i ) log | α | ,
where K > 1 is the constant stated in Lemma 1, and define a real function
G ( r , t ) = E 2 r + r ( log r log log + r ) log 2 + t r r ( r 1 ) .
By using Lemmas 1 and 2, the following Lemma 3 is easily checked.
Lemma 3.
If N 1 1 is the number as in Lemma 2,
| α | F ( n , t ) | x n ( t ) | | α | G ( n , t )
holds for any n N 1 .
Proof of Theorem 2. 
Let ϵ = log r α , t log n t . Obviously, 0 ϵ 1 . From (8), we have
log n t = E 1 log 2 1 t r log 2 ϵ ,
which implies that
n t log n t log 2 = E 1 n t n t log 2 t r n t ϵ n t log 2 .
Let N 1 1 be the number as in Lemma 2. Since
( n t + k ) log ( n t + k ) log 2 = n t log n t log 2 + n t log 1 + k n t log 2 + k log n t log 2 + k log 1 + k n t log 2 ,
by Lemma 3 we obtain
| x n t + k ( t ) | | α | F ( n t + k , t ) = | α | E 1 k n t log 2 + n t log 1 + k n t log 2 + k log n t log 2 + k log 1 + k n t log 2 t r k ϵ n t log 2 = | α | n t log 1 + k n t log 2 ( n t + k ) log 2 + k log 1 + k n t log 2 ϵ ( n t + k ) log 2 .
Taking | k | n t into account, we have
n t log 1 + k n t k = n t k n t 1 2 k n t 2 + k = n t 1 2 k n t 2 + O k n t 3 , k log 1 + k n t = k k n t 1 2 k n t 2 + = n t k n t 2 + O k n t 3 .
Then (15) yields the inequality (9). In the same way as above, we obtain the conclusion for the case of | α | > 1 . The proof of Theorem 2 is complete. □
Proof of Theorem 3. 
Let us express | E p ( s ) | as
| E p ( s ) | = a N s N | 1 + h ( s ) | ,
where
h ( s ) = a N + 1 a N s + a N + 2 a N s 2 + = x N + 1 ( t ) x N ( t ) + x N + 2 ( t ) x N ( t ) + .
Let N N 1 . Then, from Lemma 3 we can estimate | h ( s ) | as
| h ( s ) | m = 1 | α | G ( N + m , t ) F ( N , t ) .
Let R > 0 be given arbitrarily. Choosing N > N 1 to be sufficiently large, we have that if
| s | = e ζ 1 i t i + ζ 1 r t r R
is satisfied, then
G ( N + m , t ) F ( N , t ) ( N + m ) log ( N + m ) N log N
holds for any m 1 . Then, from (16) it follows that
| h ( s ) | m = 1 1 ( N + 1 ) log | α 1 | m .
Since
a N s N ( 1 | h ( s ) | ) | E p ( s ) | a N s N ( 1 + | h ( s ) | ) ,
the conclusion is obtained from Lemmas 1 and 2. In the same way as above, we obtain the conclusion for the case of | α | > 1 . The proof of Theorem 3 is complete. □

4. Proof of Lemma 1

In this section, we give the proof of Lemma 1
Since 0 < | α | < 1 , by the definition, there exists a constant C > 1 such that
a D n | α | n < C
holds for all n 1 , and then we can choose n 0 5 such that
C | α | n + 1 + log n log | α | log ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) 1
is satisfied for any n n 0 . Take a constant K > 1 such that the inequality (12) holds for 1 n n 0 . Let n n 0 , and assume that a 1 , a 2 , , a n 1 and a n satisfy the inequality (12).
Then we have
| a n + 1 | = a D n + 1 | a 1 a n + a 2 a n 1 + a n a 1 | a D n + 1 k = 1 n | a k a n + 1 k | a D n + 1 k = 1 n K n + 1 | α | k log 2 ( log k log log + k ) + n + 1 k log 2 log ( n + 1 k ) log log + ( n + 1 k ) .
Noticing n n 0 5 , we have the result that the exponent part of | α | in the above inequality takes the minimum value at k = ( n + 1 ) / 2 . Therefore,
| a n + 1 | n a D n + 1 K n + 1 | α | n + 1 log 2 log n + 1 2 n + 1 log 2 log log + n + 1 2 = n a D n + 1 K n + 1 | α | ( n + 1 ) + n + 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) n + 1 log 2 log log + ( n + 1 ) n + 1 log 2 log 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) .
Using the expansion
log 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) = log 2 log ( n + 1 ) 1 2 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) 2 ,
we obtain by (18) and (19) that
| a n + 1 | n a D n + 1 K n + 1 | α | ( n + 1 ) + n + 1 log ( n + 1 ) + n + 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) log log + ( n + 1 ) C K n + 1 | α | n + 1 + log n log | α | log ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) | α | n + 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) log log + ( n + 1 ) K n + 1 | α | n + 1 log 2 log ( n + 1 ) log log + ( n + 1 ) ,
which implies that the inequality (12) holds for n + 1 . Therefore, the conclusion is obtained. The proof of Lemma 1 is complete.
In the same way as above, we obtain Lemma 1 for | α | > 1 .

5. Lower Bounds to Absolute Values of Coefficients a n ’s

We give in this section the proof of Lemma 2. We first introduce a function for measuring the growth of an entire function at infinity (cf. [28]). Let g : C C be an entire function and define a function M g on { r R | r > 0 } by
M g ( r ) = max | s | = r | g ( s ) | .
The growth  ρ of g is defined by
ρ = lim ¯ r log   log   M g ( r ) log r .
If g is expressed in the form of the power series g ( t ) = n = 0 c n t n , the growth ρ is characterized by
ρ = lim ¯ n n log n log 1 | c n | .
For more details on the growth ρ , refer to [28], pp. 4, Theorem 2; [29], pp. 257, Theorem 9.4.

5.1. Growth of x p ( s ) at Infinity

To prove Lemma 2, we prepare the following Lemma 4 that is already known ([30]). For completeness, a simple proof is given.
Lemma 4.
Let 0 < | α | < 1 . Then
ρ p = log 2 log | α 1 |
holds. When | α | > 1 , a similar statement holds if α is replaced with α 1 .
Proof. 
For r > 0 , we denote by D r the open disk with radius r centered at the origin in ℂ. Then there exists a maximum value
M r = sup { | x p ( s ) | | s D r } .
Note that x p is not a constant. Fix r > 0 to be sufficiently large. Then M r is large enough. By the maximum modulus theorem, M r is attained at some point s 0 in the boundary of D r , i.e., | x p ( s 0 ) | = M r . Since | α | < 1 , we have α s 0 D r , and so | x p ( α s 0 ) | < M r . Since M r is large enough, it follows that
| x p ( α 1 s 0 ) | = λ x p ( s 0 ) + b x p ( α s 0 ) a x p ( s 0 ) 2 M r 2 | a | λ M r | b | M r a 2 M r 2 .
Letting N r = a / 2 1 / 2 M r , we have N r > 1 . Then
| x p ( α 1 s 0 ) |   N r 2
holds. Let n 2 , and assume that
| x p ( α n s 0 ) | N r 2 n .
Then we have
| x p ( α ( n + 1 ) s 0 ) | = λ x p ( α n s 0 ) + b x p ( α ( n 1 ) s 0 ) a x p ( α n s 0 ) 2 a 2 2 n 1 M r 2 n 2 | a | λ M r 2 a n | b | M r 2 a n a 2 2 n M r 2 n + 1 = N r 2 n + 1 .
Therefore, the inequality (21) holds for all n 1 .
The estimate (21) yields
lim | s | log   log   M x p ( | s | ) log | s | lim n log   log   | x p ( α n s 0 ) | log | α n s 0 | = lim n n log 2 + c n log | α 1 | + log | s 0 | = log 2 log | α 1 | ,
where c is a constant.
For any point s in the closure of D r we have
| x p ( α s ) | M r ,
and hence,
| x p ( α 1 s ) | M r 2 | a | + λ M r + | b | M r 2 | a | M r 2 .
Repeating this procedure, we obtain the estimate
| x p ( α n s ) | ( 2 | a | ) 2 n 1 M r 2 n = R r 2 n
for any n 1 and s in the closure of D r , where R r = ( 2 | a | ) 1 / 2 M r . From the inequality (23), we have
log   log   | x p ( α n s ) | n log 2 + c
where c is a constant. This yields
lim | s | log   log   M x p ( | s | ) log | s | lim ¯ n r | α 1 | | s | r log   log   | x p ( α n s ) | log | α n s | = log 2 log | α 1 | .
From the estimates (22) and (24), the conclusion (20) is obtained. In the same way, we obtain the result for | α | > 1 . The proof is complete. □

5.2. Proof of Lemma 2

In the following, suppose that 0 < | α | < 1 . Let { a n } n = 1 be the sequence provided in (5). By Lemma 4, for each sufficiently small positive number ϵ 1 , there exists a natural number n ϵ large enough such that
| α | n ϵ log n ϵ log 2 ϵ log | α | < | a n ϵ | < | α | n ϵ log n ϵ log 2 + ϵ log | α | .
We note that the estimate (25) holds for a sequence { n ϵ } of natural numbers, and n ϵ goes to infinity as ϵ 0 . To show Lemma 2, the lower bounds in (25) are used.
Proof of Lemma 2. 
Let N 1 . For a ˜ 1 given, we define a sequence { a ˜ n } n = 1 N by the recurrence relation
a ˜ n + 1 = a α ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 2 ( n + 1 ) 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) D n + 1 k = 1 n α k ( N k ) ( N + k + 1 ) 2 + 2 k 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) × α ( n + 1 k ) ( N n + k 1 ) ( N + n k + 2 ) 2 + 2 ( n + 1 k ) 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ k a ˜ n + 1 k .
Set
b 1 ( N ) = α N ( N 1 ) 4 3 2 + N 2 + N 2 a ˜ 1 = α ( N 1 ) ( N + 2 ) 2 + N 2 + N 2 a ˜ 1 = α a ˜ 1 , b 2 ( N ) = α 2 N 2 ( N 1 ) 2 · 4 2 · 3 + 3 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ 2 = α 2 ( N 2 ) ( N + 3 ) 2 + 3 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ 2 ,
b n ( N ) = α n N n ( N 1 ) n ( n + 1 ) + 2 n 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ n = α n ( N n ) ( N + n + 1 ) 2 + 2 n 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ n ,
b N 2 ( N ) = α ( N 2 ) N ( N 2 ) ( N 1 ) + 2 N 5 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N 2 = α ( N 2 ) ( 2 N 1 ) + 2 N 5 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N 2 , b N 1 ( N ) = α ( N 1 ) N + 2 N 3 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N 1 , b N ( N ) = α 2 N 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N .
Here, we remark that the exponents of α are artificial factors to accelerate the divergence.
Using the relation (27), we have
b n + 1 ( N ) = a D n + 1 k = 1 n b k ( N ) b n + 1 k ( N )
for any n with 1 n N 1 . Therefore, if we set
b 1 ( N ) = a 1 ,
then
b n ( N ) = a n
holds for every n with 1 n N , and we especially have
b N ( N ) = a N = α 2 N 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N .
To prove Lemma 2, we discuss the divergence properties of the sequence { a ˜ n } n = 1 N from both upper and lower in the following.
Choose N 1 > 1 such that
a n D n + 1 | α | n log 2 log ( n ( n + 1 ) log + n log + ( n + 1 ) ) 1 log 2 log n + 1 log + ( n + 1 ) 1
for all n N 1 . It should be noted that N 1 is given arbitrarily and the sequence { a ˜ n } n = 1 N is defined as above. We choose N as N > N 1 . Then there exists a constant C > 1 such that
| a ˜ n | C n | a ˜ 1 | n | α | n log 2 ( log n log log + n ) n 2 ( n + 1 ) n N 2 + N 2
is satisfied for any n with 1 n N 1 .
Now, we show that the right-hand side of (33) gives an upper bound of | a ˜ n | for every n with 1 n N . Let n N 1 and assume that a ˜ 1 , a ˜ 2 , , a ˜ n satisfy the inequality (33). Since the minimum value of the function
g ( k ) = k log 2 ( log k log log + k ) + n + 1 k log 2 log ( n + 1 k ) log log + ( n + 1 k ) k ( N k ) ( N + k + 1 ) 2 ( n + 1 k ) ( N n + k 1 ) ( N + n k + 2 ) 2 k 2 ( k + 1 ) ( n + 1 k ) 2 ( n + 2 k ) = k log 2 ( log k log log + k ) + n + 1 k log 2 log ( n + 1 k ) log log + ( n + 1 k ) k 2 ( k + 1 ) 2 ( n + 1 k ) 2 ( n + 2 k ) 2 ( n + 1 ) N 2 + N 2
occurs at k = 1 and g ( k ) is monotonically increasing in the interval 1 k n + 1 2 , using the relation (27), we have
| a ˜ n + 1 | C n + 1 | a ˜ 1 | n + 1 n | a | | D n + 1 | | α | ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 × | α | n log 2 ( log n log log + n ) ( N 1 ) ( N + 2 ) 2 n ( N n ) ( N + n + 1 ) 2 2 n 2 ( n + 1 ) ( n + 1 ) N 2 + N 2 = C n + 1 a n D n + 1 | α | n log 2 log ( n ( n + 1 ) log + n log + ( n + 1 ) ) 1 log 2 log n + 1 log + ( n + 1 ) × | a ˜ 1 | n + 1 | α | n + 1 log 2 ( log ( n + 1 ) log log + ( n + 1 ) ) ( n + 1 ) 2 ( n + 2 ) + 3 n 2 + 5 n 2 ( n + 1 ) N 2 + N 2 , C n + 1 | a ˜ 1 | n + 1 | α | n + 1 log 2 ( log ( n + 1 ) log log + ( n + 1 ) ) ( n + 1 ) 2 ( n + 2 ) ( n + 1 ) N 2 + N 2 ,
by which we have the inequality (33) for a ˜ n + 1 . Therefore, the inequality (33) holds for any n with 1 n N .
Let ϵ > 0 be sufficiently small. From the lower bound of the estimate (25), by choosing n ϵ to be large enough if necessary, it follows that
| a n ϵ | | 2 a a 1 | n ϵ | α | ( 1 + ϵ ) n ϵ log n ϵ log 2 .
To show the estimate (13), we set N = n ϵ and let b 1 ( N ) = a 1 as in (30). Let n + 1 = N . Since
a N = α 2 N 1 2 ( N 2 + N ) a ˜ N , a 1 = α a ˜ 1
by the relations (32) and (27), we have
| a ˜ n + 1 | | 2 a a ˜ 1 | n + 1 | α | ( 1 + ϵ ) ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) log 2 ( n + 1 ) 2 ( n + 2 ) 2 + ( n + 1 ) n N 2 + N 2 .
From the relation (27) and the estimate (33), it follows that
a ˜ n + 1 + 2 a α ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 D n + 1 α ( N 1 ) ( N + 2 ) 2 n ( N n ) ( N + n + 1 ) 2 a ˜ 1 a ˜ n = a α ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 D n + 1 k = 2 n 1 | α | k ( N k ) ( N + k + 1 ) 2 | α | ( n + 1 k ) ( N n + k 1 ) ( N + n k + 2 ) 2 | a ˜ k a ˜ n + 1 k | ( n 2 ) | a | C n + 1 | a ˜ 1 | n + 1 | D n + 1 | | α | 4 ( n 1 ) 2 n 2 ( n + 1 ) N 2 + N 2 + n 1 log 2 ( log ( n 1 ) log log + ( n 1 ) ) .
Here, it should be noted that 0 < | α | < 1 . Dividing (37) by a ˜ n + 1 and taking into account of (35), we have
1 + 2 a a ˜ 1 α ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 D n + 1 α ( N 1 ) ( N + 2 ) 2 n ( N n ) ( N + n + 1 ) 2 a ˜ n a ˜ n + 1 1 | 2 a | n + 1 ( n 2 ) | a | C n + 1 | D n + 1 | × | α | 5 n 2 n 2 5 × | α | n 1 log 2 ( log ( n 1 ) log log + ( n 1 ) ) ( 1 + ϵ ) ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) log 2 .
Noticing that | D n + 1 | 1 | α | n + 1 , the right-hand side of the above inequality is less than
C | 2 a | n + 1 | α | 2 n 2 × | α | n 1 log 2 ( log ( n 1 ) log log + ( n 1 ) ) ( 1 + ϵ ) ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) log 2 .
Since | α | < 1 , taking N 1 sufficiently large if necessary, we can choose a constant θ with 0 < θ < 1 such that
1 + 2 a a ˜ 1 α ( n + 1 ) ( N n 1 ) ( N + n + 2 ) 2 D n + 1 α ( N 1 ) ( N + 2 ) 2 n ( N n ) ( N + n + 1 ) 2 a ˜ n a ˜ n + 1 θ n .
From (35) and (37), we have
| a ˜ n | > 1 θ n | 2 a a ˜ 1 | | 2 a a ˜ 1 | n + 1 | α | 3 n 2 + 5 n 2 + ( 1 + ϵ ) ( n + 1 ) log ( n + 1 ) log 2 ( n + 1 ) 2 ( n + 2 ) 2 + ( n + 1 ) n N 2 + N 2 ,
from which it follows that
| a ˜ n | | 2 a a ˜ 1 | n | α | ( 1 + ϵ ) n log n log 2 n 2 ( n + 1 ) 2 + n ( n 1 ) N 2 + N 2 .
Therefore, the inequality (35) holds for n = N 1 = n ϵ 1 .
Since
a ˜ N 1 = α ( N 1 ) N 2 N 3 2 ( N 2 + N ) a N 1 , a ˜ 1 = α 1 a 1
by the relations (29), (31), and (27), from the above result, we obtain the inequality (34) for n = n ϵ 1 . Next, set N = n ϵ 1 and let n + 1 = N . Then, in the same way as above, we obtain the inequality (34) for n = n ϵ 2 . Repeat this procedure. We obtain
| a n | | 2 a a 1 | n | α | ( 1 + ϵ ) n log n log 2
for any n satisfying N 1 n n ϵ . Since n ϵ goes to infinity as ϵ 0 , the estimate (13) is obtained for any n N 1 . The proof of Lemma 2 is complete. □
In the same way as above, we obtain Lemma 2 for | α | > 1 .

6. Concluding Remarks

In this paper, we have clarified that the Taylor expansions of analytic functions appearing in the linearization of Hénon maps at hyperbolic fixed points do not successfully approximate invariant manifolds, such as stable and unstable manifolds, when higher-order terms are truncated, by proving that the computational complexity for the approximations by the Taylor expansions grows exponentially. The key findings are to obtain the upper and lower bounds to the absolute values of the coefficients in the Taylor expansions.
One of the future works is to clarify that the holomorphic maps defined by taking conjugates by iteration maps of the Hénon map and of the derivative give much better approximations of invariant manifolds than the Taylor expansions under some assumptions. The other is to show that the asymptotic expansion gives us much better performance as well.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, C.M.; Methodology, K.H.; Software, C.M.; Validation, C.M.; Formal analysis, K.H. and C.M.; Investigation, K.H. and C.M.; Resources, C.M.; Writing—original draft, K.H. and C.M.; Visualization, C.M.; Supervision, K.H.; Project administration, K.H. and C.M.; Funding acquisition, C.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Grant No. 17K05371, Grant No. 18K03418, Grant No. 21K03408, and Grant No. 25K07155) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the joint research project of ILE, Osaka University, Osaka Central Advanced Mathematical Institute (OCAMI), Osaka Metropolitan University, and the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, an International Joint Usage/Research Center located in Kyoto University.

Data Availability Statement

The original contributions presented in this study are included in the article. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments that helped to improve the quality of this article. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort invested in the review process.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1. A chaotic system encircling KAM tori, where a = 0.34284 and b = 1 . The asterisk denotes an elliptic fixed point. Panel (b) is the enlarged figure of (a), and panels (c,d) are further enlarged views of (b). The red and blue curves denote the stable and unstable manifolds, respectively.
Figure 1. A chaotic system encircling KAM tori, where a = 0.34284 and b = 1 . The asterisk denotes an elliptic fixed point. Panel (b) is the enlarged figure of (a), and panels (c,d) are further enlarged views of (b). The red and blue curves denote the stable and unstable manifolds, respectively.
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