On Hopf bifurcations of piecewise planar Hamiltonian systems (Q619878)

This paper studies generalized Hopf bifurcations for piecewise planar Hamiltonian systems having a discontinuity curve given by a straight line. More concretely, the authors consider autonomous systems of the form \[ \dot x=H_y(x,y),\quad \dot y=-H_x(x,y), \] where \(H(x,y)=H^+(x,y)\) for \(x>0\) and \(H(x,y)=H^-(x,y)\) for \(x<0\) with \(H^\pm\) analytic functions on the whole plane. Moreover, they assume that the system has a monodromic generalized singular point on \(x=0\). Recall that these points can be of three types: focus-focus, focus-parabolic or parabolic-parabolic according to the behaviors of both Hamiltonian systems near the singular point. The main results of the paper study lower and upper cyclicities of the generalized singular point under some assumptions on \(H^\pm\). One of these hypotheses is that both \(H^\pm(0,y)\) are polynomials.