On Poincaré's fourth and fifth examples of limit cycles at infinity.

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069997MaRDI QIDQ1414980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601204, http://math.la.asu.edu/~rmmc/rmj/Vol33-1/CONT33-1/CONT33-1.html

zbMATH Keywords

limit cycles at infinity Poincaré's example

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Smooth dynamical systems: general theory (37C99)

Abstract: Errors are found in example problems from Henri Poincar'e's paper ``M'emoire sur les courbes d'efinies par une 'equation diff'erentielle. Examples four and five from chapter seven and examples one, two, and three from chapter nine do not have the limit cycles at infinity predicted by Poincar'e. Instead they have fixed points at every point at infinity. In order to understand the errors made by Poincar'e, examples four and five are studied at length. Replacement equations for the fourth and fifth examples are suggested based on the supposition that terms were omitted from Poincar'e's equations.

Review text

Errors are found in example problems in the paper of \textit{H. Poincaré} [Résal J. (3) 8, 251--296 (1882; JFM 14.0666.01)]. In particular, it is reported that in Examples 4 and 5 of Chapter 7, and Examples 1-3 of Chapter 9 there are fixed-points at infinity instead of limit cycles.

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