International Journal of Mathematical Analysis
Vol. 9, 2015, no. 22, 1083 - 1093
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http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ijma.2015.412381
Number of Limit Cycles for Homogeneous
Polynomial System
Hero Waisi Salih
1, 2
, Zainal Abdul Aziz
1, 2
and Faisal Salah
1, 3
1
UTM Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
3
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science,
University of Kordofan, Elobid, Sudan.
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Abstract
In this paper the bifurcation of limit cycles at infinity for a class of homogeneous
polynomial system of degree four is examined. This requires a problem for
bifurcation of limit cycles at infinity be converted from the original system to the
class of complex autonomous differential system. The evaluation of the conditions
from the origin to be a centre and the highest degree fine focus results from the
calculation of singular point values. A quartic system is constructed for which it
can bifurcate with only one limit cycle at infinity when the normal parameters are
constant.
Keywords: Infinity; Singular point quantities; Quartic differential system; Centre
condition; Bifurcation of limit cycles
1. Introduction
In this work, the bifurcation of limit cycles is being referred to particularly to the
bifurcation at infinity. The computation of the focal values is one way to examine
it. In the case of bifurcation of limit cycles at the origin, a lot of work has been
done, most of them have been reported in [6, 11]. For the case at infinity, the
study is concerned with the following system of degree 2n + 1, [6]