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The purpose of this paper is to study various monotonicity conditions of the period function $T(c)$ (energy-dependent) for potential systems $\ddot x + g(x)=0$ with a center at the origin 0. We had before identified a family of new criteria…
This paper is concerned with the monotonicity of the period function for closed orbits of systems of the Li\'enard II type equation given by $\ddot{x} + f(x)\dot{x}^{2} + g(x) = 0$. We generalize Chicone's result regarding the monotonicity…
This paper investigates the monotonicity of the period function associated with planar Hamiltonian systems of the form $H(x,y) = F(x) + G(y)$. We establish sufficient conditions ensuring the monotonicity of the period function corresponding…
In this work we study the equation $(E) \ddot x + f(x) \dot x^2 + g(x) = 0$ with a center at 0 and investigate conditions of its isochronicity. When $f$ and $g$ are analytic (not necessary odd) a necessary and sufficient condition for the…
We are interested at first in the study of the monotonicity for the period function of the conservative equation \ $(1)\quad \ddot x + g(x) = 0.$\quad Some refinements of known criteria are brought. Moreover, we give necessary and…
In this paper we consider several families of potential non-isochronous systems and study their associated period functions. Firstly, we prove some properties of these functions, like their local behavior near the critical point or…
In this paper, we construct two classes of planar polynomial Hamiltonian systems having a center at the origin, and obtain the lower bounds for the number of critical periods for these systems. For polynomial potential systems of degree…
In this paper, we study the Hamiltonian differential systems with homogeneous nonlinearity parts on $\mathbb{C}^2$. Firstly, we present a series of topological properties of polynomial Hamiltonian functions, with a particular focus on the…
In this paper, we propose an analytical non-polynomial potential system which has infinitely many critical periodic orbits in phase plane. By showing the existence of infinitely many $2\pi-$ periodic solutions, the proof bases on…
We study the existence of centers of planar autonomous system of the form $$(S) \quad \dot x=y,\qquad \dot y = -h(x) - g(x)y - f(x)y^2.$$ We are interested in the period function $T$ around a center 0. A sufficient condition for the…
We interest in the behaviour of the period function for equations of the type $u'' + g(u) = 0$ and $u'' + f(u)u' + g(u) = 0$ with a center at the origin 0. $g$ is a function of class $C^k$. For the conservative case, if $k \geq 2$ one shows…
In this paper, we study the topological properties of complex polynomial Hamiltonian differential systems of degree $n$ having an isochronous center. Firstly, we prove that if the critical level curve possessing an isochronous center…
We give a short proof of Urabe's criteria for the isochronicity of periodical solutions of the equation $\ddot{x}+g(x)=0$. We show that apart from the harmonic oscillator there exists a large family of isochronous potentials which must all…
A theorem on the existence of exactly $N$ limit cycles around a critical point for the Lienard system $\ddot{x}+f(x) \dot{x}+g(x) =0$ is proved. An alogrithm on the determination of a desired number of limit cycles for this system has been…
Using a new compactification (toroidal compactification) and desingularization, we obtain a complete characterization of monodromy at infinity for polynomial Newton system of arbitrary degree, in which we establish an equivalence between…
This paper deals with the period function of the reversible quadratic centers \begin{equation*} X_{\np}=-y(1-x)\partial_x+(x+Dx^2+Fy^2)\partial_y, \end{equation*} where $\np=(D,F)\in\R^2.$ Compactifying the vector field to $\Sc^2$, the…
We study the asymptotic development at infinity of an integral operator. We use this development to give sufficient conditions in order to upper bound the number of critical periodic orbits that bifurcate from the outer boundary of the…
We investigate the monotonicity of the minimal period of periodic solutions of quasilinear differential equations involving the $p$-Laplace operator. First, the monotonicity of the period is obtained as a function of a Hamiltonian energy in…
We apply the Thom-Milnor theorem to obtain the upper bounds on the amount of isolated (1) critical points of a potential generated by several fixed point charges(Maxwell's problem on point charges), (2) critical points of SINR, (3) critical…
Quantum critical points in quasiperiodic magnets can realize new universality classes, with critical properties distinct from those of clean or disordered systems. Here, we study quantum phase transitions separating ferromagnetic and…