An explicit expression for the first return map in the center problem (Q703817): Difference between revisions

After an appropriate change of variable, this paper is concerned with plane autonomous systems of the form \(dx/dt=-y+F(x,y)\), \(dy/dt =x+G(x,y)\), where \(F\) and \(G\) are real analytic functions whose Taylor expansions at the origin do not contain constant and linear terms. Generally, the origin can be either a center or a focus. The author investigates this classical Poincaré problem which characterizes \(F\) and \(G\) in order that the origin is a center. The author presents a method by which an explicit expression for the first return map is obtained for this center problem.