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Semi-parabolic Bifurcations in Complex Dimension Two

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Parabolic bifurcations in one complex dimension demonstrate a wide variety of interesting dynamical phenomena. In this paper we consider the bifurcations of a holomorphic diffeomorphism in two complex dimensions with a semi-parabolic, semiattracting fixed point.

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Bedford, E., Smillie, J. & Ueda, T. Semi-parabolic Bifurcations in Complex Dimension Two. Commun. Math. Phys. 350, 1–29 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-017-2832-y

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