On the Limit Cycles for Continuous and Discontinuous Cubic Differential Systems

Abstract EN

We study the number of limit cycles for the quadratic polynomial differential systems x ˙ = - y + x 2 , y ˙ = x + x y having an isochronous center with continuous and discontinuous cubic polynomial perturbations.

Using the averaging theory of first order, we obtain that 3 limit cycles bifurcate from the periodic orbits of the isochronous center with continuous perturbations and at least 7 limit cycles bifurcate from the periodic orbits of the isochronous center with discontinuous perturbations.

Moreover, this work shows that the discontinuous systems have at least 4 more limit cycles surrounding the origin than the continuous ones.