Computing center conditions for vector fields with constant angular speed

Abstract

We investigate the planar analytic systems which have a center-focus equilibrium at the origin and whose angular speed is constant. The conditions for the origin to be a center (in fact, an isochronous center) are obtained. Concretely, we find conditions for the existence of a C w -commutator of the field. We cite several subfamilies of centers and obtain the centers of the cuartic polynomial systems and of the families (−y+x(H 1+H m), x+y(H 1+H m)) t and (−y+x(H 2+H 2n), x+y(H 2+H 2n)) t , with H i homogeneous polynomial in x, y of degree i. In these cases, the maximum number of limit cycles which can bifurcate from a fine focus is determined.