Center-Focus Problem for Discontinuous Planar Differential Equations

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The authors study the following class of discontinuous planar systems of ordinary differential equations \[ (\dot{x},\dot{y})= \begin{cases}(-y+P^{+}(x,y),x+Q^{+}(x,y)) & \text{if }y\geq0,\\ (-y+P^{-}(x,y),x+Q^{-}(x,y)) & \text{if }y\leq0, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(P^{+},P^{-},Q^{+},Q^{-}\) are analytic functions starting at least with second order terms. They are concerned with: the center-focus problem (whether the origin of (1) is either a center, an attractor or a repeller); the problem of determining the maximal number of (small amplitude) limit cycles which bifurcate from the origin under the variation of the parameters inside this class of systems. Such problems are solvable by the method of Lyapunov numbers. The main contribution of the article is a new method for determination of the Lyapunov numbers. Moreover, the proposed method is easy to be implemented in a computer-algebraic system. The article contains some nice applications of the new method to quadratic and Kukles systems.




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