Limit cycles for regularized discontinuous dynamical systems with a hyperplane of discontinuity (Q2358195)

For \(x=(x_{1},x_{2},\cdots, x_{n})\), let \(h(x)=x_{1}\), \(S=h^{-1}(0)\), and let \(\mathbb R_{+}\) be the set of all points \(x\) such that \(h(x)>0\) and \(\mathbb R_{-}\) be the set of all points \(x\) such that \(h(x)<0\). Consider the system \[ \dot{x}=F_{0}(x) \] with \(F_{0}(x)= F_{+}(x)\) when \( x \in \mathbb R_{+}\), and \( F_{0}(x)=F_{-}(x)\) when \( x \in \mathbb R_{-}\), where \(F_{+}\) and \(F_{-}\) are \(C^{r}\) functions. Let \(\phi(x)\) be a real function satisfying \(\phi(x)=-1\) when \(x\leq -1\), \(\phi(x)=1\) when \(x \geq 1\), and \(\phi '(x) >0\) in \( -1< x < 1\). The \(\phi-\)regularized systems of \(F_{0}(x)\) is a \(1-\)parameter family of systems \[ \dot{x}=F_{\epsilon}(x) =\frac{1}{2} \left(1-\phi \left( \frac{h(x)}{\epsilon} \right) \right) F_{-}(x)+ \frac{1}{2} \left(1+\phi \left(\frac{h(x)}{\epsilon} \right) \right)F_{+}(x) . \] Let \(\gamma\) be an asymptotically stable periodic orbit of \(F_{0}\) not entirely contained in \(S\). With some basic conditions, the authors prove that for sufficiently small positive \(\epsilon\), the system \(F_{\epsilon}\) has a unique asymptotically stable limit cycle \(\gamma_{\epsilon}\), and \(\gamma_{\epsilon} \to \gamma\) as \(\epsilon \to 0\).