In this paper we investigate the perturbations from a kind of quartic Hamiltonians under general cubic polynomials. It is proved that the number of isolated zeros of the related abelian integrals around only one center is not more than 12 except the case of global center. It is also proved that there exists a cubic polynomial such that the disturbed vector field has at least 3 limit cycles while the corresponding vector field without perturbations belongs to the saddle loop case.
In this paper, we investigate the number and the distribution of the limit cycles bifurcated from a kind of degenerate planar polycycles through three singular points: a saddle-node P 0, a fine saddle P 1 with finite order m ∈ N, a contractive (attracting) saddle P 2 with the hyperbolicity ratio q 2(0) ? Q. The connection between P 0 and P 1 is of hh-type and the connection between P 0 and P 2 is of hp-type. It is assumed that the connections between P 0 to P 2 and P 0 to P 1 keep unbroken. We obtain that the cyclicity of this polycycle is not more than 3m + 1, which is linearly dependent on the order of the resonant saddle P 1. We also show that the cyclicity is not more than m + 3 if q 2(0) > m, and that the nearer q 2(0) is close to 1, the more the limit cycles are bifurcated.
Li-qin ZHAO Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
