Limit cycles of discontinuous perturbed quadratic center via the second order averaging method (Q2156326)

In this paper, the authors study the number of limit cycles for a piecewise smooth quadratic integrable differential system with a switching line. By applying the second order averaging method, they obtain the lower upper bounds of the maximum number of limit cycles when the quadratic center perturbed inside discontinuous cubic homogenous polynomials. The bounds can be realized. To sum up, the analysis in this paper is skillful and interesting and the results are useful in studying the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem.