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Inhomogeneous Fuchs equations and the limit cycles in a class of near-integrable quadratic systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Iliya D. Iliev
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 373, 1090 Sofia, Bulgaria e-mail:[email protected]

Extract

We study the bifurcation of limit cycles in general quadratic perturbations of the particular quadratic system which represents one of two codimension-five components in the intersection of two strata in the centre manifold, and Q4. The study of limit cycles for this degenerate case requires us to investigate not the first but the second variation M2 of the displacement function. We prove that up to three limit cycles can emerge from the period annulus surrounding the centre. This implies that the cyclicity of period annuli of nearby systems in and Q4 is at most three as well. Our approach relies upon the possibility of deriving appropriate Picard–Fuchs equations satisfied by the four independent integrals included in M2.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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