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# Estimates on the number of limit cycles of a generalized Abel equation

• We prove new results about the number of isolated periodic solutions of a first order differential equation with a polynomial nonlinearity. Such results are applied to bound the number of limit cycles of a family of planar polynomial vector fields which generalize the so-called rigid systems.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C07; Secondary: 34C25.

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