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Publications and source records attributed to Oleg Makarenkov.
In this paper we evaluate the topological index of periodic solutions otained via the Malkin-Loud bifurcation result. Incidentally, we do not assume that the perturbation is differentiale.
We consider an autonomous system in R^n having a limit cycle x_0 of period T>0 which is nondegenerate in a suitable sense. We then consider the perturbed system obtained by adding to the autonomous system a T-periodic, not necessarily differentiable, term whose amplitude tends to 0 as a small parameter e>0 tends to 0. Assuming the existence of a T-periodic solution x_e of the perturbed system and its convergence to x_0 as e->0, the paper establishes the existence of d_e->0 as e->0 such that \|x_e(t+d_e)-x_0(t)\|<=eM for some M>0 and any e>0 sufficiently small.
In this paper we consider a class of planar autonomous systems having an isolated limit cycle x_0 of smallest period T>0 such that the associated linearized system around it has only one characteristic multiplier with absolute value 1. We consider two functions, defined by means of the eigenfunctions of the adjoint of the linearized system, and we formulate conditions in terms of them in order to have the existence of two geometrically distinct families of T-periodic solutions of the autonomous system when it is perturbed by nonsmooth T-periodic nonlinear terms of small amplitude. We also show the convergence of these periodic solutions to x_0 as the perturbation disappears and we provide an estimation of the rate of convergence. The employed methods are mainly based on the theory of topological degree and its properties that allow less regularity on the data than that required by the approach, commonly employed in the existing literature on this subject, based on various versions of the implicit function theorem.