The limit cycles for a class of non-autonomous piecewise differential equations (Q6541981)

In this paper, the authors consider a class of non-autonomous piecewise smooth differential equations defined as follows \N\[\N\frac{dx}{dt}=a_0(t)+\sum_{i=1}^na_i(t)|x|^i,\N\]\Nwhere \(n\in \mathbb N\) and each \(a_i(t)\) is a real, \(1\)-periodic, and smooth function. The purpose of this paper is to generalize some existing results of \(n=1\).\N\NFirstly, they prove that the number of limit cycles of the above system has no upperbound. This is natural, since even if \(n=1\), the number of limit cycles is unbounded.\N\NSecondly, they show that if \(a_1(t), \dots, a_n(t)\) do not changed the sign, the above system has at most two limit cycles. Previously, only the case \(n=1\) has been known.\N\NAt last, they consider a more general system: \(\frac{dx}{dt}=a_0(t)+\sum_{i=1}^na_i(t)x^i, x\geq0, \frac{dx}{dt}=b_0(t)+\sum_{i=1}^nb_i(t)x^i, x<0 \), and offer a criterion for determining the uniqueness of the limit cycle within this class of equations.