Bifurcation of limit cycles by perturbing piecewise non-Hamiltonian systems with nonlinear switching manifold (Q2215478)

This work is devoted to limit cycles bifurcating under a perturbation of a planar smooth piecewise systems defined on two open sets and connected by a smooth manifold. By applying the first-order Melnikov function the authors study limit cycles bifurcation for piecewise non-Hamiltonian systems with nonlinear switching manifold. They derive the sharp upper bound for the number of bifurcated limit cycles for two concrete systems, whose switching manifolds are algebraic curves.