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The criticality of reversible quadratic centers at the outer boundary of its period annulus. (English) Zbl 1501.34032

Summary: This paper deals with the period function of the reversible quadratic centers \[ X_\nu = - y(1 - x) \partial_x +(x + D x^2 + F y^2) \partial_y, \] where \(\nu = (D, F) \in \mathbb{R}^2\). Compactifying the vector field to \(\mathbb{S}^2\), the boundary of the period annulus has two connected components, the center itself and a polycycle. We call them the inner and outer boundary of the period annulus, respectively. We are interested in the bifurcation of critical periodic orbits from the polycycle \(\Pi_\nu\) at the outer boundary. A critical period is an isolated critical point of the period function. The criticality of the period function at the outer boundary is the maximal number of critical periodic orbits of \(X_\nu\) that tend to \(\Pi_{\nu_0}\) in the Hausdorff sense as \(\nu \to \nu_0\). This notion is akin to the cyclicity in Hilbert’s 16th Problem. Our main result (Theorem A) shows that the criticality at the outer boundary is at most 2 for all \(\nu = (D, F) \in \mathbb{R}^2\) outside the segments \(\{- 1\} \times [0, 1]\) and \(\{0\} \times [0, 2]\). With regard to the bifurcation from the inner boundary, Chicone and Jacobs proved in their seminal paper on the issue that the upper bound is 2 for all \(\nu \in \mathbb{R}^2\). In this paper the techniques are different because, while the period function extends analytically to the center, it has no smooth extension to the polycycle. We show that the period function has an asymptotic expansion near the polycycle with the remainder being uniformly flat with respect to \(\nu\) and where the principal part is given in a monomial scale containing a deformation of the logarithm, the so-called Écalle-Roussarie compensator. More precisely, Theorem A follows by obtaining the asymptotic expansion to fourth order and computing its coefficients, which are not polynomial in \(\nu\) but transcendental. Theorem A covers two of the four quadratic isochrones, which are the most delicate parameters to study because its period function is constant. The criticality at the inner boundary in the isochronous case is bounded by the number of generators of the ideal of all the period constants but there is no such approach for the criticality at the outer boundary. A crucial point to study it in the isochronous case is that the flatness of the remainder in the asymptotic expansion is preserved after the derivation with respect to parameters. We think that this constitutes a novelty that is of particular interest also in the study of similar problems for limit cycles in the context of Hilbert’s 16th Problem. Theorem A also reinforces the validity of a long standing conjecture by Chicone claiming that the quadratic centers have at most two critical periodic orbits. A less ambitious goal is to prove the existence of a uniform upper bound for the number of critical periodic orbits in the family of quadratic centers. By a compactness argument this would follow if one can prove that the criticality of the period function at the outer boundary of any quadratic center is finite. Theorem A leaves us very close to this existential result.

MSC:

34C07 Theory of limit cycles of polynomial and analytic vector fields (existence, uniqueness, bounds, Hilbert’s 16th problem and ramifications) for ordinary differential equations
34C05 Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations
34C20 Transformation and reduction of ordinary differential equations and systems, normal forms
34C23 Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations
34C37 Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations
34C14 Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations
34E05 Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations

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