On the limit cycles of a quartic model for Evolutionary Stable Strategies

This paper studies the number of centers and limit cycles of the family of planar quartic polynomial vector fields that has the invariant algebraic curve (4x2−1)(4y2−1)=0. The main interest for this type of vector fields comes from their appearance in some mathematical models in Game Theory composed...

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Autores: Gasull, Armengol, Gouveia, Luiz F.S. [UNESP], Santana, Paulo [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/303228
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nonrwa.2024.104313
https://hdl.handle.net/11449/303228
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Berlinskiĭ’s theorem
Center-focus
Cyclicity
Evolutionary Stable Strategies
Limit cycles
Evolutionary stable strategies
Invariant algebraic curves
Limit-cycle
Number of centers
Polynomial vector field
Quartic polynomial
Vector fields
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Sumario:This paper studies the number of centers and limit cycles of the family of planar quartic polynomial vector fields that has the invariant algebraic curve (4x2−1)(4y2−1)=0. The main interest for this type of vector fields comes from their appearance in some mathematical models in Game Theory composed by two players. In particular, we find examples with five nested limit cycles surrounding the same singularity, as well as examples with four limit cycles formed by two disjoint nests, each one of them with two limit cycles. We also prove a Berlinskiĭ’s type result for this family of vector fields.