scientific article; zbMATH DE number 123926

Authors Dingjun Luo, Maoan Han, Deming Zhu

Publication date 18 February 1993

separatrix cycle uniqueness of limit cycles

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05)

[For part I, cf. ibid., No. 3, 407-417 (1992; Zbl 0763.34018).] Consider the \(C^ 3\) system (1) \(\dot x=f(x,y)+\alpha f_ 0(x,y,\alpha,\delta)\), \(\dot y=g(x,y)+\alpha g_ 0(x,y,\alpha,\delta)\) where \(\alpha\in R\), \(\delta\in R^ n\), \(n\geq 1\). Assume \((1)_{\alpha=0}\) has a separatrix cycle \(L_ 0\) of the form \(\infty\), where the double point \(N\) is a weak saddle with \(\sigma_ 0=(f_ x+g_ y)_ N=0\), and the two trajectories passing through \(N\) are \(z_ 1(t)\) and \(z_ 2(t)\). Theorem 1. If \(\sigma_ 1+\sigma_ 2<0\) \((>0)\), then \(L_ 0\) is outer stable (unstable) for \((1)_{\alpha=0}\), where \(\sigma_ i=\int^ \infty_{-\infty}(f_ x+g_ y)(z_ i(t))dt\) \((i=1,2)\) are finite numbers, by a former theorem. Next, denote \[ M_ i(\delta)=\int^ \infty_{-\infty}e^{-\int^ t_ 0(f_ x+g_ y)dt}\cdot (fg_ 0-gf_ 0)_{{\alpha=0\atop z=z_ i(t)}}dt,\;i=1,2. \] Theorem 2. Assume \(\sigma_ 0=0\), \(\sigma_ 1+\sigma_ 2\neq 0\), then for sufficiently small \(|\alpha|\) and \(|\delta-\delta_ 0|\), in a small neighbourhood of \(L_ 0\) there is a unique limit cycle (no limit cycle) of (1), when \(\alpha(\sigma_ 1+\sigma_ 2)M_ i(\delta_ 0)<0\) \((>0)\), \(i=1,2\). Some similar theorems are also proved when \((1)_{\alpha=0}\) has a family of closed orbits \(L_ \lambda\) outside \(L_ 0(L_ \lambda\to L_ 0\) when \(\lambda\to 0)\), by using \(M_ 1(\delta_ 0)+M_ 2(\delta_ 0)\) and its derivative instead of \(M_ i(\delta_ 0)\). The authors also point out that the uniqueness of limit cycles in a certain theorem in \textit{J. Carr}'s book ``Application of centre manifold theory (1981; Zbl 0464.58001) was not strictly proved.

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