Limit cycles in piecewise polynomial Hamiltonian systems allowing nonlinear switching boundaries

This paper aims to study the limit cycles of planar piecewise polynomial Hamiltonian systems of degree n with the switching boundary y = xm, where m and n are positive integers. We answer a version of the 16th Hilbert problem for such systems, providing an upper bound for the maximum number of limit...

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Autores: Li, Tao, Llibre, Jaume|||0000-0002-9511-5999
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:307720
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/307720
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.jde.2022.11.007
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bifurcation theory
Limit cycle
Nonlinear switching boundary
Non-smooth center
Piecewise Hamiltonian system
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Sumario:This paper aims to study the limit cycles of planar piecewise polynomial Hamiltonian systems of degree n with the switching boundary y = xm, where m and n are positive integers. We answer a version of the 16th Hilbert problem for such systems, providing an upper bound for the maximum number of limit cycles in the function of m and n. We also are devoted to giving a lower bound via perturbing piecewise linear Hamiltonian systems having at the origin a global center. For this, a complete classification of the center conditions is established. In pursuit of a better lower bound, we require that this global center is nonlinear induced by the piecewise linearity, instead of the normal linear differential center considered in most of the existing articles. This renders that the traveling time of the unperturbed periodic orbits in each smooth zone is not calculable explicitly. Thus it is difficult to use the known Melnikov functions and averaged functions to study the bifurcating limit cycles. To overcome this difficulty, we develop an arbitrary order Melnikov-like function, which does not depend on the traveling time, for general d-dimensional piecewise smooth integrable systems allowing nonlinear switching boundaries. Finally, employing the new Melnikov-like function to the considered perturbation problem, we obtain a lower bound and an upper bound for the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcating from the unperturbed periodic orbits up to any order.