The period function near a polycyclic with two semi-hyperbolic vertices (Q5953070)

Let \(P\) be a polycycle of an analytic vector field with two critical points (the vertices) and two regular trajectories (the sides). Assume also that the two critical points are semi-hyperbolic and that \(P\) is the boundary of an annulus of periodic orbits. This paper is devoted to find the principal part of the function that gives the period of the orbits when they approach to \(P.\) To be more precise, we introduce some notations. Let \(\Sigma\) be a half-transversal section to \(P\) at a point \(p\in P,\) and parameterize it by \(s\in\mathbb{R}^+.\) Denote by \(T(s)\) the period of the orbit that passes trough \(\Sigma\) at the point with parameter \(s.\) The fact that \(P\) is the boundary of an annulus of periodic orbits forces that one of the sides of \(P\) (the center side) is contained in the center manifolds of both vertices and the other side (the hyperbolic side) is contained in the varieties associated to the nonzero eigenvalues of the vertices. The main result of this paper is that, if \(p\) is in the hyperbolic side of \(P,\) then the map \(T\) satisfies \(T(s)=ks^{-n}(1+\varepsilon(s)),\) where \(k>0,\) \(n\in \mathbb{N}\) with \(\varepsilon(s)\to 0\) if \(s\to 0^+.\) One of the key ingredients of the proof is that in a neighborhood of each of the critical points there exist \(C^\infty\) coordinates such that the differential equation writes as \(x'=x^{n+1}f(x,y),\quad y'=-y(n+\lambda x^n)f(x,y),\) where \(f\) is a strictly positive \(C^\infty\) function, with \(n\in\mathbb{N}\) and \(\lambda\in\mathbb{R}\).