Towards Theory of Piecewise Linear Dynamical Systems

In this paper, we consider a planar dynamical system with a piecewise linear function containing an arbitrary number (but finite) of dropping sections and approximating some continuous nonlinear function. Studying all possible local and global bifurcations of its limit cycles, we prove that such a piecewise linear dynamical system with $k$ dropping sections and $2k+1$ singular points can have at most $k+2$ limit cycles, $k+1$ of which surround the foci one by one and the last, $(k+2)$-th, limit cycle surrounds all of the singular points of this system.