Coupled Hénon Map, Part I: Topological Horseshoes and Uniform Hyperbolicity

We derive a sufficient condition for topological horseshoe and uniform hyperbolicity of a 4-dimensional symplectic map, which is introduced by coupling the two 2-dimensional Hénon maps via linear terms. The coupled Hénon map thus constructed can be viewed as a simple map modeling the horseshoe in higher dimensions. We show that there are two different types of horseshoes, each of which is realized around different anti-integrable limits in the parameter regime.