AN APPLICATION OF REGULAR CHAIN THEORY TO THE STUDY OF LIMIT CYCLES

Abstract

In this paper, the theory of regular chains and a triangular decomposition method relying on modular computations are presented in order to symbolically solve multivariate polynomial systems. Based on the focus values for dynamic systems obtained by using normal form theory, this method is applied to compute the limit cycles bifurcating from Hopf critical points. In particular, a quadratic planar polynomial system is used to demonstrate the solving process and to show how to obtain center conditions. The modular computations based on regular chains are applied to a cubic planar polynomial system to show the computation efficiency of this method, and to obtain all real solutions of nine limit cycles around a singular point. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first article to simultaneously provide a complete, rigorous proof for the existence of nine limit cycles in a cubic system and all real solutions for these limit cycles.