Limit cycles of planar piecewise differential systems with linear Hamiltonian saddles

We provide the maximum number of limit cycles for continuous and discontinuous planar piecewise differential systems formed by linear Hamiltonian saddles and separated either by one or two parallel straight lines. We show that when these piecewise differential systems are either continuous or discon...

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Autores: Llibre, Jaume|||0000-0002-9511-5999, Valls, Clàudia|||0000-0001-8279-1229
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:256307
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/256307
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/sym13071128
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Crossing limit cycles
Linear Hamiltonian saddles
Continuous piecewise linear differential systems
Discontinuous piecewise differential systems
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Sumario:We provide the maximum number of limit cycles for continuous and discontinuous planar piecewise differential systems formed by linear Hamiltonian saddles and separated either by one or two parallel straight lines. We show that when these piecewise differential systems are either continuous or discontinuous and are separated by one straight line, or are continuous and are separated by two parallel straight lines, they do not have limit cycles. On the other hand, when these systems are discontinuous and separated by two parallel straight lines, we prove that the maximum number of limit cycles that they can have is one and that this maximum is reached by providing an example of such a system with one limit cycle. When the line of discontinuity of the piecewise differential system is formed by one straight line, the symmetry of the problem allows to take this straight line without loss of generality as the line x = 0. Similarly, when the line of discontinuity of the piecewise differential system is formed by two parallel straight lines due to the symmetry of the problem, we can assume without loss of generality that these two straight lines are x = ±1.