Inductive solution of the tangential center problem on zero-cycles

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Authors A. Álvarez, J. L. Bravo, Pavao Mardešić

Publication date 25 March 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5896, http://www.mathjournals.org/mmj/2013-013-004/2013-013-004-001.html

zbMATH Keywords

moment problemabelian integralscenter-focus problemtangential center problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Theory of limit cycles of polynomial and analytic vector fields (existence, uniqueness, bounds, Hilbert's 16th problem and ramifications) for ordinary differential equations (34C07) Singularities, monodromy and local behavior of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, normal forms (34M35) Analytic theory of abelian varieties; abelian integrals and differentials (14K20) Ordinary differential equations and connections with real algebraic geometry (fewnomials, desingularization, zeros of abelian integrals, etc.) (34C08)

Abstract: Given a polynomial $finC[z]$ of degree $m$, let $z_1(t),\mathrm{...},z_m(t)$ denote all algebraic functions defined by $f(z_k(t))=t$. Given integers $n_1\mathrm{...},n_m$ such that $n_1+\mathrm{...}+n_m=0$, the tangential center problem on zero-cycles asks to find all polynomials $ginC[z]$ such that $n_{1}g(z_1(t))+\mathrm{...}+n_{m}g(z_m(t))equiv0$. The classical Center-Focus Problem, or rather its tangential version in important non-trivial planar systems lead to the above problem. The tangential center problem on zero-cycles was recently solved in a preprint by Gavrilov and Pakovich. Here we give an alternative solution based on induction on the number of composition factors of $f$ under a generic hypothesis on $f$. First we show the uniqueness of decompositions $f=f_{1}circ\mathrm{...}circ{f}_d$, such that every $f_k$ is 2-transitive, monomial or a Chebyshev polynomial under the assumption that in the above composition there is no merging of critical values. Under this assumption, we give a complete (inductive) solution of the tangential center problem on zero-cycles. The inductive solution is obtained through three mechanisms: composition, primality and vanishing of the Newton-Girard component on projected cycles.

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