A. Szymczak, A COMBINATORIAL PROCEDURE FOR FINDING ISOLATING NEIGHBORHOODS AND INDEX PAIRS, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A. Mathematics, 127, 1997, pp. 1075-1088
We present a purely combinatorial procedure for finding an isolating n
eighbourhood and an index pair contained in a given set, being a finit
e union of cubes in R-s. It is applied for a computer-assisted computa
tion of the Conley index of an isolated invariant subset of the Henon
attractor. As a corollary, it is shown that the Henon attractor contai
ns periodic orbits of all principal periods except for 3 and 5.