Abstract
In this paper, we study the number of limit cycles of a new class of polynomial differential systems, which is an extended work of two families of differential systems in systems considered earlier. We obtain the maximum number of limit cycles that bifurcate from the periodic orbits of a center using the averaging theory of first and second order.
JEL Classification:
34C29; 34C25; 47H11
1. Introduction
One of the more difficult problems in the qualitative theory of polynomial differential equations in the plane is the study of their limit cycles. Thus a classical problem related to these polynomial differential systems is the second part of the unsolved 16th Hilbert problem [1,2], which essentially consists of finding a uniform upper bound for the maximum number of limit cycles that a planar polynomial differential system of a given degree can have.
The limit cycles problem and the center problem are concentrated on specific classes of systems. For instance, much has been written on Kolmogorov systems, Liénard systems and Kukles systems, that is, systems of the form
where is a polynomial with real coefficients of degree n. Bifurcation of limit cycles in Kukles systems have been tackled by several authors and by using different approaches.
In [3], Kukles gave necessary and sufficient conditions in order that (1) with has a center at the origin. This cubic system without the term was also studied in [4] and the authors called it reduced. Christopher and Lloyd [5] presented some systems that yield at most five limit cycles bifurcating from the origin. In [6], Chavarriga et al. studied the maximum number of small amplitude limit cycles for Kukles systems which can coexist with some invariant algebraic curves. By averaging theory, bifurcation of limit cycles for a family of perturbed Kukles differential systems was studied in [7,8,9,10,11]. In [8], Llibre and Mereu studied the maximum number of limit cycles of the Kukles polynomial differential systems
where the polynomials and have degree and respectively, is a real number.
Sáez and Szántó, in [12] introduced the following system
where , and is a small parameter, thy proved the following result.
Theorem 1
(See [12]). If either or for , then system (2) has at most global limit cycles bifurcated from the unperturbed Hamiltonian center.
In [13], Rabanal computed the maximum number of limit cycles of the following differential systems
where for every and the polynomial has degree with and is a small parameter. For or , thy obtained the maximum number of limit cycles of the polynomial differential systems (3) bifurcating from the periodic orbits of the linear centre using averaging theory
- a
- of first order
- b
- of second order is
- c
- of third order is
where denotes the integer part function.
By using the averaging theory, we shall study in this work the maximum number of limit cycles which can bifurcate from the periodic orbits of a linear center perturbed inside the following differential systems
where , the polynomial has degree and is a small parameter. More precisely our main result is the following.
Theorem 2.
Assume that for the constants the polynomials have degree , with . Suppose that or and Then for sufficiently small the maximum number of limit cycles of the polynomial differential systems (4) bifurcating from the periodic orbits of the linear centre using averaging theory
- (a)
- of first order is limit cycles
- (b)
- of second order iswhere
2. The Averaging Theory of First and Second Order
Now we summarize the basic results from averaging theory that we need for proving the results of this paper.
Consider the differential system
where are continuous functions, T-periodic in the first variable, and D is an open subset of . Assume that the following hypotheses (i) and (ii) hold.
(i) for all , and are locally Lipschitz with respect to x, and R is differentiable with respect to where indicate the Jacobian matrix of with respect to x.
We define : for as
where
(ii) For an open and bounded set and for each there exists such that
Then, for sufficiently small there exists a T-periodic solution of system (5) such that
The expression means that the Brouwer degree of the function at the fixed point is not zero. A sufficient condition for the inequality to be true is that the Jacobian of the function at is not zero.
If is not identically zero, then the zeros of at mainly the zeros of for sufficiently small. In this case the previous result provides the averaging theory of first order.
If is identically zero and is not identically zero, then the zeros of are mainly the zeros of for sufficiently small. In this case the previous result provides the averaging theory of second order. For additional information on the averaging theory see for instance [14,15,16].
3. Proof of Theorem 2
3.1. Proof of Statement (a) of Theorem 2
In order to apply the first order averaging method we write system (4) with , in polar coordinates where ,
We know that
Hence
for every
Now using the expressions of the integrals in Appendix A, we obtain
For the polynomial has at most positive roots. Hence (a) of Theorem 2 is proved.
3.2. Proof of Statement (b) of Theorem 2
For proving statement (b) of Theorem 2 we shall use the second-ordre averaging theory. If we write
Again, using the integrals of Appendix A, we obtain
Then, taking into account that
where and are constants.
In order to apply the second order averaging method we need to compute the corresponding function that we rewrite as
with
and
Lemma 1.
The integral is a polynomial in the variable r given by
where
and
where and are real constants and
Proof.
We have that the sum of the integrals – is the polynomial
The sum of the integrals – is the polynomial .
We have that the sum of the integrals – is the polynomial .
We have that the sum of the integrals – is the polynomial
We have that the sum of the integrals – is the polynomial Hence Lemma 1 is proved. □
Lemma 2.
The integral is a polynomial in the variable r given by
Proof.
From we have that
The sum of the integrals and is the polynomial Hence Lemma 2 is proved. □
By Lemmas 1 and 2, we have
we conclude that has at most
positive roots. Hence (b) of Theorem 2 is proved.
Author Contributions
The authors contributed equally in this article. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the anonymous referees for the careful reading and their important observations/suggestions for sake of improving this paper. Moreover, the first and second author would like to thank his Professors/Scientists: Ammar Makhlouf, Mohamed Haiour, Ahmed-Salah Chibi and Azzedine Benchettah at Annaba University in Algeria for the important content of Bachelor, Masters and Ph.D. courses in pure and applied mathematics which he received during his studies. Moreover, he thanks them for the additional help they provided to him during office hours in their office about the few concepts/difficulties he had encountered, and he appreciates their talent and dedication for their postgraduate students currently and previously!
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this manuscript. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Appendix A. Formulae
In this appendix we recall some formulae that will be used during the paper, (see [17]). For we have
where and are non-zero constants.
where
where and are real constants.
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