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Perturbations of quadratic centers of genus one

Dynamical Systems 2011-03-30 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We propose a program for finding the cyclicity of period annuli of quadratic systems with centers of genus one. As a first step, we classify all such systems and determine the essential one-parameter quadratic perturbations which produce the maximal number of limit cycles. We compute the associated Poincare-Pontryagin-Melnikov functions whose zeros control the number of limit cycles. To illustrate our approach, we determine the cyclicity of the annuli of two particular reversible systems.

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@article{arxiv.0705.1609,
  title  = {Perturbations of quadratic centers of genus one},
  author = {Sebastien Gautier and Lubomir Gavrilov and Iliya D. Iliev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1609},
  year   = {2011}
}

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28 pages