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Existence and uniqueness of limit cycles in a class of second order ODE's with inseparable mixed terms

Dynamical Systems 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

We prove a uniqueness result for limit cycles of the second order ODE x¨+x˙ϕ(x,x˙)+g(x)=0\ddot x + \dot x \phi(x,\dot x) + g(x) = 0. Under mild additional conditions, we show that such a limit cycle attracts every non-constant solution. As a special case, we prove limit cycle's uniqueness for an ODE studied in \cite{ETA} as a model of pedestrians' walk. This paper is an extension to equations with a non-linear g(x)g(x) of the results presented in \cite{S}.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2020,
  title  = {Existence and uniqueness of limit cycles in a class of second order ODE's with inseparable mixed terms},
  author = {Marco Sabatini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2020},
  year   = {2015}
}