A Chebyshev criterion for at most two non-zero limit cycles in Abel equations
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| author | Huang, Jianfeng Tian, Renhao Zhao, Yulin |
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| contents | In this paper, we investigate the maximum number of limit cycles of the reduced Abel equation $\dot{x}=A(t)x^{3}+B(t)x^{2}$ on an interval $[0,T]$.
The Smale-Pugh problem asks whether this maximum number is bounded in terms of a given class of coefficients.
We establish for the first time a Chebyshev criterion, providing a positive answer to the problem when this class spanned by an extended Chebyshev system (ET-system) $\mathcal{F}=\{f_{0},f_{1},f_{2}\}$ on $[0,T)$ with $f_{0}\not=0$.
As an application, we prove that the equation has at most three limit cycles (including $x=0$) when the coefficients $A$ and $B$ are both linear trigonometric functions or quadratic polynomials. This reestablishes the result of Yu et al. (J. Differ. Equ., 2024) and improves the work of Bravo et al. (Disc. Cont. Dyn. Syst., 2015 \& J. Differ. Equ., 2024). We also obtain the same maximum number of limit cycles for the equation with trinomial coefficients. |
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| spellingShingle | A Chebyshev criterion for at most two non-zero limit cycles in Abel equations Huang, Jianfeng Tian, Renhao Zhao, Yulin Classical Analysis and ODEs In this paper, we investigate the maximum number of limit cycles of the reduced Abel equation $\dot{x}=A(t)x^{3}+B(t)x^{2}$ on an interval $[0,T]$. The Smale-Pugh problem asks whether this maximum number is bounded in terms of a given class of coefficients. We establish for the first time a Chebyshev criterion, providing a positive answer to the problem when this class spanned by an extended Chebyshev system (ET-system) $\mathcal{F}=\{f_{0},f_{1},f_{2}\}$ on $[0,T)$ with $f_{0}\not=0$. As an application, we prove that the equation has at most three limit cycles (including $x=0$) when the coefficients $A$ and $B$ are both linear trigonometric functions or quadratic polynomials. This reestablishes the result of Yu et al. (J. Differ. Equ., 2024) and improves the work of Bravo et al. (Disc. Cont. Dyn. Syst., 2015 \& J. Differ. Equ., 2024). We also obtain the same maximum number of limit cycles for the equation with trinomial coefficients. |
| title | A Chebyshev criterion for at most two non-zero limit cycles in Abel equations |
| topic | Classical Analysis and ODEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14091 |