Local cyclicity and criticality in FF-type piecewise smooth cubic and quartic Kukles systems (Q2147477)

The local cyclicity or local criticality for FF(focus-focus)-type piecewise smooth Kukles systems of degrees \(3\) and \(4\) is being studied. The following results are obtained. \textbf{Theorem 1.1.} The local cyclicity for FF-type discontinuous piecewise smooth Kukles systems of degrees \(3\) and \(4\) without a sliding segment is \(M_p^{ff}(3)\geqslant10\) and \(M_p^{ff}(4)\geqslant12\) respectively. The local cyclicity for FF-type discontinuous piecewise smooth Kukles systems of degrees \(3\) and \(4\) with a sliding segment is \(11\) and \(13\) respectively. \textbf{Theorem 1.2.} The local cyclicity for FF-type continuous piecewise smooth Kukles systems of degrees \(3\) and \(4\) is \(M_p^{ff}(3)\geqslant9\) and \(M_p^{ff}(4)\geqslant13\) respectively. \textbf{Theorem 1.3.} The local criticality for FF-type discontinuous piecewise smooth cubic Kukles systems is \(C_p\geqslant6.\) The local criticality for FF-type continuous piecewise smooth cubic Kukles systems is also \(C_p\geqslant6.\)