On Loops in the Hyperbolic Locus of the Complex Hénon Map and Their Monodromies

We prove John Hubbard’s conjecture on the topological complexity of the hyperbolic horseshoe locus of the complex Hénon map. In fact, we show that there exist several non-trivial loops in the locus which generate infinitely many mutually different monodromies. Furthermore, we prove that the dynamics of the real Hénon map is completely determined by the monodromy of the complex Hénon map, providing the parameter is contained in the hyperbolic horseshoe locus of the complex Hénon map.