The center-focus problem and reversibility (Q5944088)

The reversibility is an interesting concept useful in the qualitative theory of differential equations that implies certain geometric properties. For instance, if an orbit of a reversible vector field meets the fixed-point set at two distinct points then it is necessarily a symmetric periodic orbit. The paper is concerned with the following problem for a class of two-dimensional systems having a center at the singular point: if a system possesses certain symmetries, what can be said about its reversibility? Sufficient and necessary conditions for the analytic planar system to have a center are given and the reversibility of certain classes of polynomial vector fields is discussed.