Bifurcations of limit cycles from a quintic Hamiltonian system with a heteroclinic cycle (Q2452390)

The authors consider Liénard systems of the form \[ \frac{dx}{dt}=y, \frac{dy}{dt}=-(x+bx^3-x^5)+\varepsilon(\alpha+\beta x^2+\gamma x^4)y, \] where \(b\in \mathbb{R}\), \(0<|\varepsilon|\ll 1\) and triple \((\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\) belongs to bounded region \(D\subset \mathbb{R}^3\). Applying the investigation of isolated zeros for the related abelian integrals it is proved that for \(|b|\gg 1(b<0)\) the least upper bound for the number of limit cycles bifurcating from period annulus equals \(2\) (counting the multiplicity) and this upper bound is a sharp one.