On the cyclicity of Kolmogorov polycycles

In this paper we study planar polynomial Kolmogorov's differential systems Xμ{x˙=f(x,y;μ),y˙=g(x,y;μ), with the parameter μ varying in an open subset Λ⊂RN. Compactifying Xμ to the Poincaré disc, the boundary of the first quadrant is an invariant triangle Γ, that we assume to be a hyperbolic pol...

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Autores: Marín, David|||0000-0003-4422-6418, Villadelprat Yagüe, Jordi|||0000-0002-1168-9750
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:265184
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/265184
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.14232/ejqtde.2022.1.35
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Limit cycle
Polycycle
Cyclicity
Asymptotic expansion
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Sumario:In this paper we study planar polynomial Kolmogorov's differential systems Xμ{x˙=f(x,y;μ),y˙=g(x,y;μ), with the parameter μ varying in an open subset Λ⊂RN. Compactifying Xμ to the Poincaré disc, the boundary of the first quadrant is an invariant triangle Γ, that we assume to be a hyperbolic polycycle with exactly three saddle points at its vertices for all μ∈Λ. We are interested in the cyclicity of Γ inside the family {Xμ}μ∈Λ, i.e., the number of limit cycles that bifurcate from Γ as we perturb μ. In our main result we define three functions that play the same role for the cyclicity of the polycycle as the first three Lyapunov quantities for the cyclicity of a focus. As an application we study two cubic Kolmogorov families, with N=3 and N=5, and in both cases we are able to determine the cyclicity of the polycycle for all μ∈Λ, including those parameters for which the return map along Γ is the identity.