Bifurcation of limit cycles from a heteroclinic loop with a cusp (Q531690)

Bifurcation of limit cycles is studied by investigating the expansion of the first Melnikov function of a near-Hamiltonian system \[ x' = H_y +\varepsilon p(x, y, \delta),\quad y' = -H_x +\varepsilon q(x, y, \delta) \] near a heteroclinic loop with a cusp and a saddle or two cusps. Using the formulae obtained for computing the first coefficients of the expansion, results on bifurcation are obtained for some polynomial systems. This is a continuation of the authors' previous publications in this area.