On the number of critical periods for planar polynomial systems (Q944752): Difference between revisions

The authors consider planar polynomial systems and get some lower bounds of critical periods for families of centers which are perturbations of the linear one. They present a method which lets them prove that there are polynomial centers of degree \(l\) with at least \(2[(l-2)/2]\) critical periods, moreover they study concrete families of potential, reversible, and Liénard centers. The last case is studied in more detail; in particular, it is proved that the number of critical periods obtained with the authors' approach does not increase with the order of the perturbation.