Uniqueness of limit cycles for Liénard differential equations of degree four

Chengzhi Li; Jaume Llibre

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2011.11.002

Uniqueness of limit cycles for Liénard differential equations of degree four

Chengzhi Li, Jaume Llibre

Department of Mathematics

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We prove that any classical Liénard differential equation of degree four has at most one limit cycle, and the limit cycle is hyperbolic if it exists. This result gives a positive answer to the conjecture by A. Lins, W. de Melo and C.C. Pugh (1977) [4] about the number of limit cycles for polynomial Liénard differential equations for n = 4. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3142-3162
Journal	Journal of Differential Equations
Volume	252
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2011.11.002
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2012

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Limit cycle
Liénard equations

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