# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2019, 24(11): 5885-5901. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019111

## On the limit cycles of planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems with a unique equilibrium

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou 510320, China 2 Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Auònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

* Corresponding author: Jaume Llibre

Received  September 2018 Revised  December 2018 Published  June 2019

This paper deals with planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems with two zones separated by a vertical straight line $x = k$. We assume that the left linear differential system ($x<k$) and the right linear differential system ($x>k$) share the same equilibrium, which is located at the origin $O(0, 0)$ without loss of generality.

Our results show that if $k = 0$, that is when the unique equilibrium $O(0, 0)$ is located on the line of discontinuity, then the discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems have no crossing limit cycles. While for the case $k\neq 0$ we provide lower and upper bounds for the number of limit cycles of these planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems depending on the type of their linear differential systems, i.e. if those systems have foci, centers, saddles or nodes, see Table 2.

Citation: Shimin Li, Jaume Llibre. On the limit cycles of planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems with a unique equilibrium. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019, 24 (11) : 5885-5901. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019111
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Appl., 467 (2018), 537-549.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2018.07.024.  Google Scholar [22] R. Lum and L. O. Chua, Global properties of continuous piecewise-linear vector fields. Part I: Simplest case in $\mathrm{R}^2$, University of California at Berkeley, Memorandum UCB/ERL M90/22, 19 (1991), 251-307.  doi: 10.1002/cta.4490190305.  Google Scholar [23] E. Ponce, J. Ros and E. Vela, The boundary focus-saddle bifurcation in planar piecewise linear systems. Application to the analysis of memristor oscillators, Nonlinear Anal. Ser. B: Real World Appl., 43 (2018), 495-514.  doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2018.03.011.  Google Scholar
. A periodic orbit of a system (5) with $k = 0$. Fig 1.2. The orbit of system (5) with $k = 1$ which pass through the point $(1, y_1)$">Figure 1.  Fig 1.1. A periodic orbit of a system (5) with $k = 0$. Fig 1.2. The orbit of system (5) with $k = 1$ which pass through the point $(1, y_1)$
. Center-Focus type. Fig 3.2. Center-Node (diagonal) type. Fig 3.3. Center-Node (non-diagonal) type">Figure 3.  The unique limit cycle of some systems (17). Fig 3.1. Center-Focus type. Fig 3.2. Center-Node (diagonal) type. Fig 3.3. Center-Node (non-diagonal) type
The graphic of the function $f(t_+)$ in the interval $(0, \pi)$
. Focus-Focus type. Fig 5.2. Focus-Center type. Fig 5.3. Focus-Node (diagonal) type. Fig 5.4. Focus-Node (non-diagonal) type">Figure 5.  Limit cycles of some systems (33). Fig 5.1. Focus-Focus type. Fig 5.2. Focus-Center type. Fig 5.3. Focus-Node (diagonal) type. Fig 5.4. Focus-Node (non-diagonal) type
Lower bounds for the maximum number of limit cycles of discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems (3) known up to now. $F$, $S$ and $N$ denote a linear differential systems having a focus or a center, a saddle and a node, respectively. In the column there is the linear differential systems on $x>0$, and on the row the linear differential systems in $x<0$
 F S N F 3 3 3 S 3 2 2 N 3 2 2
 F S N F 3 3 3 S 3 2 2 N 3 2 2
The lower bounds for the maximum number of limit cycles of discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems (5) with $k>0$. See Theorem 2
 F C N N$^{'}$ F 3 2 1 1 C 1 0 1 1 S 1 1 1 1
 F C N N$^{'}$ F 3 2 1 1 C 1 0 1 1 S 1 1 1 1
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