Putting a boundary to the space of Liénard equations

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April 2007, 17(2): 441-448. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2007.17.441

Putting a boundary to the space of Liénard equations

1.	Institut de Mathématique de Bourgogne, U.M.R. 5584 du C.N.R.S., Université de Bourgogne, B.P. 47 870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France

Received December 2005 Revised September 2006 Published November 2006

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A lot of partial results are known about the Liénard differential equations : $\dot x= y -F_a^n(x),\ \ \dot y =-x.$ Here $F_a^n$ is a polynomial of degree $2n+1,\ \ F_a^n(x)= \sum_{i=1}^{2n}a_ix^i+x^{2n+1},$ where $a = (a_1,\cdots,a_{2n}) \in \R^{2n}.$ For instance, it is easy to see that for any $a$ the related vector field $X_a$ has just a finite number of limit cycles. This comes from the fact that $X_a$ has a global return map on the half-axis $Ox=\{x \geq 0\},$ and that this map is analytic and repelling at infinity. It is also easy to verify that at most $n$ limit cycles can bifurcate from the origin. For these reasons, Lins Neto, de Melo and Pugh have conjectured that the total number of limit cycles is also bounded by $n,$ in the whole plane and for any value $a.$
In fact it is not even known if there exists a finite bound $L(n)$ independent of $a,$ for the number of limit cycles. In this paper, I want to investigate this question of finiteness. I show that there exists a finite bound $L(K,n)$ if one restricts the parameter in a compact $K$ and that there is a natural way to put a boundary to the space of Liénard equations. This boundary is made of slow-fast equations of Liénard type, obtained as singular limits of the Liénard equations for large values of the parameter. Then the existence of a global bound $L(n)$ can be related to the finiteness of the number of limit cycles which bifurcate from slow-fast cycles of these singular equations.

Keywords: limit cycles, Liénard equation, Cyclicity, slow-fast equation..

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C05; Secondary: 34C2.

Citation: Robert Roussarie. Putting a boundary to the space of Liénard equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2007, 17 (2) : 441-448. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2007.17.441

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