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Transversal conics and the existence of limit cycles. (English) Zbl 1330.34050

Consider real planar polynomial differential systems of the form \[ {dx\over dt}= P(x,y),\quad {dy\over dt}= Q(x,y)\tag{1} \] with \(P(0,0)= Q(0,0)= 0\). The authors present an algorithm consisting of six steps to construct the boundaries of a Poincaré-Bendixson region to establish existence and location of a limit cycle to (1). The boundaries consists of curves described by the relations \[ f(x,y):= 1+ s_1x+ s_2y+ s_3 x^2+ s_4 xy+ s_5 y^2= 0, \] where the real coefficients \(s_i\), \(1\leq i\leq 5\), are to determine. The first two steps consist in constructing a local solution of (1) to any initial value \((a_0,b_0)\) in the form \[ \widetilde x(t)= a_0+ \sum^N_{i=1} a_i t^i,\quad\widetilde y(t)= b_0+ \sum^N_{i=1} b_i t^i \] with \(N\geq 4\) and in gluing the curve \(f(x,y)= 0\) to this solution.
Several examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the presented algorithm.

MSC:

34C05 Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations
34C07 Theory of limit cycles of polynomial and analytic vector fields (existence, uniqueness, bounds, Hilbert’s 16th problem and ramifications) for ordinary differential equations

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