Bifurcations of limit cycles from a heteroclinic cycle of Hamiltonian systems (Q1387504): Difference between revisions

Consider two-dimensional autonomous differential systems of the form \((*)\) \(dx/dt = f(x) + \lambda f_0 (x,\delta ,\lambda)\) with \(x\in \mathbb{R}^2\), \(\lambda \in \mathbb{R}\), \(\delta \in \mathbb{R}^m\), \(f \in C^\infty\), \(\text{div }f (x) \equiv 0\). It is assumed that for \(\lambda =0\) \((*)\) has a heteroclinic cycle \(L\) consisting of two hyperbolic saddle points and two separatrices. The author derives a condition guaranteeing the existence of at most two limit cycles near the heteroclinic cycle \(L\).