We study planar polynomial differential equations with homogeneous components. This kind of equations present a simple and well known dynamics when the degrees (n and m) of both components coincide. Here we consider the case $n\ne m$ and we show that the dynamics is more complicated. In fact, we prove that such systems can exhibit periodic orbits only when nm is odd. Furthermore, for nm odd we give examples of such differential equations with at least (n+m)/2 limit cycles.

The two-parameter Hamiltonian system with the autonomous perturbation is considered. Via the Mel’nikov method, existence and uniqueness of a limit cycle of the system in a certain region of a two-dimensional space of parameters is proved.

We prove that in quadratic perturbations of generic Hamiltonian vector fields with two saddle points and one center there can appear at most two limit cycles. This bound is exact.

We consider limit cycles of a class of polynomial differential systems of the form $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\dot{x}=y,\hfill \\ \dot{y}=-x-\epsilon (g_{21}\left(x\right)y^{2\alpha +1}+f_{21}\left(x\right)y^{2\beta })-{\epsilon }^2(g_{22}\left(x\right)y^{2\alpha +1}+f_{22}\left(x\right)y^{2\beta }),\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\beta$ and $\alpha$ are positive integers, $g_{2j}$ and $f_{2j}$ have degree $m$ and $n$, respectively, for each $j=1,2$, and $\epsilon$ is a small parameter. We obtain the maximum number of limit cycles that bifurcate from the periodic orbits of the linear center $\dot{x}=y$, $\dot{y}=-x$ using the averaging theory of first and second order.

We first examine conditions implying monotonicity of the period function for potential systems with a center at 0 (in the whole period annulus). We also present a short comparative survey of the different criteria. We apply these results to quadratic Loud systems $\left(L_{D,F}\right)$ for various values of the parameters D and F. In the case of noncritical periods we propose an algorithm to test the monotonicity of the period function for $\left(L_{D,F}\right)$. Our results may be viewed as a contribution to proving (or disproving) a conjecture...

We are interested in conditions under which the two-dimensional autonomous system ẋ = y, ẏ = -g(x) - f(x)y, has a local center with monotonic period function. When f and g are (non-odd) analytic functions, Christopher and Devlin [C-D] gave a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the period to be constant. We propose a simple proof of their result. Moreover, in the case when f and g are of class C³, the Liénard systems can have a monotonic period function...

In this paper we consider cubic polynomial systems of the form: x' = y + P(x, y), y' = −x + Q(x, y), where P and Q are polynomials of degree 3 without linear part. If M(x, y) is an integrating factor of the system, we propose its reciprocal V (x, y) = 1 / M(x,y) as a linear function of certain coefficients of the system. We find in this way several new sets of sufficient conditions for a center. The resulting integrating factors are of Darboux type and the first integrals are in the Liouville form.By...

In a simple FitzHugh-Nagumo neuronal model with one fast and two slow variables, a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations for small-scale oscillations precedes the transition into the spiking regime. For a wide range of values of the timescale separation parameter, this scenario is recovered numerically. Its relation to the singularly perturbed integrable system is discussed.

We show the existence of a one-parameter family of cubic Kolmogorov system with an isochronous center in the realistic quadrant.

In this paper we provide the greatest lower bound about the number of (non-infinitesimal) limit cycles surrounding a unique singular point for a planar polynomial differential system of arbitrary degree.