Averaging approach to cyclicity of Hopf bifurcation in planar linear-quadratic polynomial discontinuous differential systems

It is well known that the cyclicity of a Hopf bifurcation in continuous quadratic polynomial differential systems in \R^2 is 3. In contrast here we consider discontinuous differential systems in \R^2 defined in two half--planes separated by a straight line. In one half plane we have a general linear...

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Authors: Chen, Xingwu, Llibre, Jaume|||0000-0002-9511-5999, Zhang, Weinian
Format: article
Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:182523
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/182523
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2017203
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cyclicity
Discontinuous differential system
Hopf bifurcation
Limit cycles
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Summary:It is well known that the cyclicity of a Hopf bifurcation in continuous quadratic polynomial differential systems in \R^2 is 3. In contrast here we consider discontinuous differential systems in \R^2 defined in two half--planes separated by a straight line. In one half plane we have a general linear center at the origin of \R^2, and in the other a general quadratic polynomial differential system having a focus or a center at the origin of \R^2. Using averaging theory, we prove that the cyclicity of a Hopf bifurcation for such discontinuous differential systems is at least 5. Our computations show that only one of the averaged functions of fifth order can produce 5 limit cycles and there are no more limit cycles up to sixth order averaged function.