scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1131187

Publication date 19 March 1998

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

The paper deals with the system \(\dot{x}=y+P_m(x,y),\;\dot{y}=-x+Q_m(x,y)\), where \(P_m\) and \(Q_m\) stand for \(m\)-th order homogeneous polynomials \((m\geq2)\). The corresponding equation in polar coordinates \((\rho ,\theta|\text{mod} 2\pi )\) takes the form \(d\rho /d\theta =\rho ^mU_m(\theta )/[-1+\rho ^{m-1}V_m(\theta )]\), where \(U_m(\theta ),\;V_m(\theta )\) are certain \(2\pi \)-periodic functions. It is supposed that the function \(\phi _m(\tau ):=V_m(\theta )/\cos^{m+1}\theta|_{\tan\theta =\tau }\) has only simple zeroes and \(\phi (\pm i)\neq 0\). The author introduces the function \(A_m(\theta )= (mU_m(\theta )+V'_m(\theta ))/V_m(\theta )\) and obtains the following representation \[ B_m(\theta ):=\int_{\theta _0}^{\theta }A_m(s) ds = h_m\cdot(\theta -\theta _0)+\ln (F(\theta )/F(\theta _0)), \] \(F(\theta )\) being a certain \(2\pi \)-periodic function. It is shown that if the function \(\exp[B_m(\theta )]\) is continuous on \(-\infty< \theta < \infty \), possesses only simple zeroes, and does not vanish at \(\theta =\pm i\), then \((0,0)\) is of center type iff \(h_m=0\).

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