The density of the transversal homoclinic points in the Henon-like strange attractors

We consider the Henon-like strange attractors Lambda in a family which is a nonsingular perturbation of a d-modal family. The existence of the Henon-like strange attractors in this family was proved by Diaz et al. [Inventions Math. 125 (1996) 37]. We prove that the transversal homoclinic points are dense in Lambda, and that hyperbolic periodic points are dense in Lambda. Moreover, the hyperbolic periodic points that are heteroclinically related to the primary periodic point (transversal intersection of stable and unstable manifolds) are dense in Lambda. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.