Limit cycles from a monodromic infinity in planar piecewise linear systems (Q1997218)

Planar piecewise linear systems separated by a straight line have been extensively studied. Here, there are adopted some new techniques via changes of variables and parameters, a reduced canonical form with five parameters is obtained. Then a more direct approach is introduced to characterize the stability and bifurcations of the periodic orbit at infinity. The authors show that the Hopf bifurcation at infinity can have degeneracies of co-dimension three and, in particular, up to three limit cycles can bifurcate from the periodic orbit at infinity.