Attractor-repeller Collision and the Heterodimensional Dynamics

We study the heterodimensional dynamics in a simple map on a three-dimensional torus. This map consists of a two-dimensional driving Anosov map and a one-dimensional driven Mobius map, and demonstrates the collision of a chaotic attractor with a chaotic repeller if parameters are varied. We explore this collision by following tangent bifurcations of the periodic orbits and establish a regime where periodic orbits with different numbers of unstable directions coexist in a chaotic set. For this situation, we construct a heterodimensional cycle connecting these periodic orbits. Furthermore, we discuss properties of the rotation number and of the nontrivial Lyapunov exponent at the collision and in the heterodimensional regime.