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Lubomir Gavrilov

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arXiv2026

On the cyclicity of the period annulus of quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector fields

In this article, we study the number of limit cycles, bifurcating from the period annulus of any quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector fields with a center, under a one-parameter polynomial perturbation. We first recharacterize quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector fields and its global center, then we establish an upper bound formula for the number of the isolated zeros of the $k$th order Melnikov function in terms of $k$, $max \{s_1,s_2\}$ and the degree $n$ of the perturbation by applying adapted Francoise's algorithm in conjunction with combinatorial techniques, where $(s_1,s_2)$ is the weight exponent of the quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector field. This extends relevant results presented in the literature [JDDE,21(2009)133-152] and [JDE, 276(2021)1-24]. As an application, we completely solve the limit cycle bifurcation problem of a perturbated quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector field.

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arXiv2022

Smooth points of the space of plane foliations with a center

We prove that a logarithmic foliation corresponding to a generic line arrangement of $d+1 \geq 3$ lines in the complex plane, with pairwise natural and co-prime residues, is a smooth point of the center set of plane foliations (vector fields) of degree $d$.

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arXiv2022

The limit cycles in a generalized Rayleigh-Liénard oscillator

We compute the cyclicity of open period annuli of the following generalized Rayleigh-Liénard equation $$\ddot{x}+ax+bx^3-(λ_1+λ_2 x^2+λ_3\dot{x}^2+λ_4 x^4+λ_5\dot{x}^4+λ_6 x^6)\dot{x}=0$$ and the equivalent planar system $X_λ$, where the coefficients of the perturbation $λ_j$ are independent small parameters and $a, b$ are fixed nonzero constants. Our main tool is the machinery of the so called higher-order Poincaré-Pontryagin-Melnikov functions (Melnikov functions $M_n$ for short), combined with the explicit computation of center conditions and the corresponding Bautin ideal. We consider first arbitrary analytic arcs $\varepsilon \to λ(\varepsilon)$ and explicitly compute all possible Melnikov functions $M_n$ related to the deformation $X_{ λ(\varepsilon)} $. At a second step we obtain exact bounds for the number of the zeros of the Melnikov functions (complete elliptic integrals depending on parameter) in an appropriate complex domain, using a modification of Petrov's method. To deal with the general case of six-parameter deformations $λ\to X_λ$, we compute first the related Bautin ideal. To do this we carefully study the Melnikov functions up to order three, and then use Nakayama lemma from Algebraic geometry. The principalization of the Bautin ideal (achieved after a blow up) reduces finally the study of general deformations $X_{ λ} $ to the study of one-parameter deformations $X_{ λ(\varepsilon)} $.

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arXiv2020

Perturbation theory of the quadratic Lotka-Volterra double center

We revisit the bifurcation theory of the Lotka-Volterra quadratic system \begin{eqnarray} X_0 :\left\{\begin{aligned} \dot{x}=& - y -x^2+y^2 ,\\ \dot{y}= &\;\;\;\;x - 2xy \end{aligned} \right. \end{eqnarray} with respect to arbitrary quadratic deformations. The system $X_0$ has a double center, which is moreover isochronous. We show that the deformed system $X_0$ can have at most two limit cycles on the finite plane, with possible distribution $(i,j)$, where $i+j\leq2$. Our approach is based on the study of pairs of bifurcation functions associated to the centers, expressed in terms of iterated path integrals of length two.

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arXiv2020

Centers of reversible cubic perturbations of the symmetric 8-loop Hamiltonian

We show that the center set of reversible cubic systems, close to the symmetric Hamiltonian system $x'=y, y'= x-x^3$ has two irreducible components of co-dimension two in the parameter space. One of them corresponds to the Hamiltonian stratum, the other to systems which are polynomial pull back of an appropriate linear system

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arXiv2019

Hilbert's 16th problem on a period annulus and Nash space of arcs

This article introduces an algebro-geometric setting for the space of bifurcation functions involved in the local Hilbert's 16th problem on a period annulus. Each possible bifurcation function is in one-to-one correspondence with a point in the exceptional divisor $E$ of the canonical blow-up $B_I{\mathbb C}^n$ of the Bautin ideal $I$. In this setting, the notion of essential perturbation, first proposed by Iliev, is defined via irreducible components of the Nash space of arcs $ Arc(B_I\mathbb C^n,E)$. The example of planar quadratic vector fields in the Kapteyn normal form is further discussed.

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arXiv2014

Cubic perturbations of elliptic Hamiltonian vector fields of degree three

The purpose of the present paper is to study the limit cycles of one-parameter perturbed plane Hamiltonian vector field $X_\varepsilon$ $$ X_\varepsilon : \left\{ \begin{array}{llr} \dot{x}=\;\; H_y+\varepsilon f(x,y)\\ \dot{y}=-H_x+\varepsilon g(x,y), \end{array} \;\;\;\;\; H~=\frac{1}{2} y^2~+U(x) \right. $$ which bifurcate from the period annuli of $X_0$ for sufficiently small $\varepsilon$. Here $U$ is a univariate polynomial of degree four without symmetry, and $f, g$ are arbitrary cubic polynomials in two variables. We take a period annulus and parameterize the related displacement map $d(h,\varepsilon)$ by the Hamiltonian value $h$ and by the small parameter $\varepsilon$. Let $M_k(h)$ be the $k$-th coefficient in its expansion with respect to $\varepsilon$. We establish the general form of $M_k$ and study its zeroes. We deduce that the period annuli of $X_0$ can produce for sufficiently small $\varepsilon$, at most 5, 7 or 8 zeroes in the interior eight-loop case, the saddle-loop case, and the exterior eight-loop case respectively. In the interior eight-loop case the bound is exact, while in the saddle-loop case we provide examples of Hamiltonian fields which produce 6 small-amplitude limit cycles. Polynomial perturbations of $X_0$ of higher degrees are also studied.

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arXiv2010

On the reduction of the degree of linear differential operators

Let L be a linear differential operator with coefficients in some differential field k of characteristic zero with algebraically closed field of constants. Let k^a be the algebraic closure of k. For a solution y, Ly=0, we determine the linear differential operator of minimal degree M and coefficients in k^a, such that My=0. This result is then applied to some Picard-Fuchs equations which appear in the study of perturbations of plane polynomial vector fields of Lotka-Volterra type.

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