Volume 6, Number 3, 2016, Pages 817-826                                                                DOI:10.11948/2016052
The center-focus problem and bifurcation of limit cycles in a class of 7th-degree polynomial systems
Bo Sang,Qinlong Wang
Keywords:Limit cycle, center variety, singular point value,time-reversibility.
Abstract:
      By computing singular point values, the center conditions are established for a class of 7th-degree planar polynomial systems with 15 parameters. It is proved that such systems can have 13 small-amplitude limit cycles in the neighborhood of the origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of a 7th-degree system having non-homogeneous nonlinearities with thirteen limit cycles bifurcated from a fine focus.
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