On the number of zeros of Abelian integrals for a polynomial Hamiltonian irregular at infinity (Q1763208)

Up to now, most of the results on the tangential Hilbert's 16th problem have been concerned with Hamiltonian regular at infinity, i.\,e., when its principal homogeneous part is a product of pairwise different linear forms. In this paper, the author studies a polynomial Hamiltonian which is not regular at infinity and shows that the space of Abelian integrals for this Hamiltonian is finitely generated as an \(R[h]\) module by several basic integrals which satisfy a Picard-Fuchs system of linear differential equations. Applying the bound meandering principle, the author obtains an upper bound for the number of complex isolated zeros of Abelian integrals on a positive distance from critical locus. This result is a partial solution of the tangential Hilbert's 16th problem for this Hamiltonian. As a consequence, the author gets an upper bound of the number of limit cycles generated by the period annulus of non-Hamiltonian integrable quadratic systems whose almost all orbits are algebraic curves of degree \(k+n,\) under polynomial perturbation of arbitrary degree.