Cubic perturbations of elliptic Hamiltonian vector fields of degree three

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Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to study the limit cycles of one-parameter perturbed plane Hamiltonian vector field Xvarepsilon X_varepsilon : left{ �egin{array}{llr} dot{x}=;; H_y+varepsilon f(x,y)\ dot{y}=-H_x+varepsilon g(x,y), end{array} ;;;;; H~=frac{1}{2} y^2~+U(x) ight. which bifurcate from the period annuli of X0 for sufficiently small varepsilon. Here U is a univariate polynomial of degree four without symmetry, and f,g are arbitrary cubic polynomials in two variables. We take a period annulus and parameterize the related displacement map d(h,varepsilon) by the Hamiltonian value h and by the small parameter varepsilon. Let Mk(h) be the k-th coefficient in its expansion with respect to varepsilon. We establish the general form of Mk and study its zeroes. We deduce that the period annuli of X0 can produce for sufficiently small varepsilon, at most 5, 7 or 8 zeroes in the interior eight-loop case, the saddle-loop case, and the exterior eight-loop case respectively. In the interior eight-loop case the bound is exact, while in the saddle-loop case we provide examples of Hamiltonian fields which produce 6 small-amplitude limit cycles. Polynomial perturbations of X0 of higher degrees are also studied.


The authors consider cubic systems in the plane which are small perturbations of Hamiltonian systems with a center and estimate the number of limit cycles produced by the perturbation. Polynomial perturbations of higher degrees are also studied in this paper.




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