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Second-order analysis in polynomially perturbed reversible quadratic Hamiltonian systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2000

LUBOMIR GAVRILOV
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Emile Picard, CNRS UMR 5580, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
ILIYA D. ILIEV
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 373, 1090 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Abstract

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We study degree $n$ polynomial perturbations of quadratic reversible Hamiltonian vector fields with one center and one saddle point. It was recently proved that if the first Poincaré–Pontryagin integral is not identically zero, then the exact upper bound for the number of limit cycles on the finite plane is $n-1$. In the present paper we prove that if the first Poincaré–Pontryagin function is identically zero, but the second is not, then the exact upper bound for the number of limit cycles on the finite plane is $2(n-1)$. In the case when the perturbation is quadratic ($n=2$) we obtain a complete result—there is a neighborhood of the initial Hamiltonian vector field in the space of all quadratic vector fields, in which any vector field has at most two limit cycles.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press