Analytic continuation and fixed points of the Poincaré mapping for a polynomial Abel equation

Miscellaneous topics of analysis in the complex plane (30E99) Theory of limit cycles of polynomial and analytic vector fields (existence, uniqueness, bounds, Hilbert's 16th problem and ramifications) for ordinary differential equations (34C07) Ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M99)

Abstract: We consider an Abel polynomial differential equation. For two given points a and b, the "Poincare mapping" of the equation transforms the values of its solution at a into their values at b. In this article, we study global analytic properties of the Poincare mapping, in particular, its analytic continuation, its singularities and its fixed points. On one side, we give a general description of singularities of the Poincare mapping, and of its analytic continuation. On the other side, we study in detail the structure of the Poincare mapping for a local model near a simple fixed singularity, where an explicit solution can be written. Yet, the global analytic structure (in particular the ramification) of the solutions and of the Poincare mapping in this case is fairly complicated, and, in our view highly instructive. For a given degree of the coefficients we produce examples with an infinite number of complex periodic solutions and analyze their mutual position and branching. Let us remind that Pugh's problem, which is closely related to the classical Hilbert's 16th problem, asks for the existence of a bound to the number of real isolated periodic solutions.

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This paper is devoted to a study of the ordinary differential equation \(y' = p(x) y^2 + q(x) y^3\) where \(x\) and \(y\) are complex variables and \(p\) and \(q\) are polynomial functions. The unique solution to the resulting initial value problem under the condition \(y(a) = y_a\) exists on a neighborhood of \(a\) in \({\mathbb C}\) and is an analytic function of \(x\). For \(b \in {\mathbb C}\) and a path \(s\) from \(a\) to \(b\), if the solution can be continued from \(a\) to \(b\) along \(s\), then a Poincaré map \(\varphi\) is defined, taking the value of the solution at \(a\) to its value at \(b\). The map \(\varphi\) can depend on both \(s\) and the continuation (which could have singularities) along \(s\). The authors study the global analytic properties of such a map \(\varphi\). Linearization at \((x,y) = (0, \infty)\) leads to the model system \(y' = y^2 + cxy^3\), which is examined in detail.

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