Limit cycles appearing from the perturbation of a cubic isochronous center

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Main Authors: Yang, Jihua, Zhang, Qipeng
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author Yang, Jihua
Zhang, Qipeng
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Zhang, Qipeng
contents For a polynomial differential system $$\dot{x}=-y+\sum\limits_{i+j=3}α_{i,j}x^iy^j,\quad \dot{y}=x+\sum\limits_{i+j=3}β_{i,j}x^iy^j,$$ Pleshkan (Differ. Equations, 1969) proved that the origin is an isochronous center of this system iff it can be brought to one of $S^*_1$, $S^*_2$, $S^*_3$ or $S^*_4$. The bifurcation of limit cycles for these four types of isochronous differential systems have not yet been studied, except for $S^*_1$. This paper is devoted to study the limit cycle problem of $S^*_2$ when we perturb it with an arbitrary polynomial vector field. An upper bound of the number of limit cycles is obtained using the Abelian integral.
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spellingShingle Limit cycles appearing from the perturbation of a cubic isochronous center
Yang, Jihua
Zhang, Qipeng
Dynamical Systems
For a polynomial differential system $$\dot{x}=-y+\sum\limits_{i+j=3}α_{i,j}x^iy^j,\quad \dot{y}=x+\sum\limits_{i+j=3}β_{i,j}x^iy^j,$$ Pleshkan (Differ. Equations, 1969) proved that the origin is an isochronous center of this system iff it can be brought to one of $S^*_1$, $S^*_2$, $S^*_3$ or $S^*_4$. The bifurcation of limit cycles for these four types of isochronous differential systems have not yet been studied, except for $S^*_1$. This paper is devoted to study the limit cycle problem of $S^*_2$ when we perturb it with an arbitrary polynomial vector field. An upper bound of the number of limit cycles is obtained using the Abelian integral.
title Limit cycles appearing from the perturbation of a cubic isochronous center
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09014