Abstract
As we know, Liénard system is an important model of nonlinear oscillators, which has been widely studied. In this paper, we study the Hopf bifurcation of an analytic Liénard system by perturbing a nilpotent center. We develop an efficient method to compute the coefficients bl appearing in the expansion of the first order Melnikov function by finding a set of equivalent quantities B2l+1 which are able to calculate directly and can be used to study the number of small-amplitude limit cycles of the system. As an application, we investigate some polynomial Liénard systems, obtaining a lower bound of the maximal number of limit cycles near a nilpotent center.
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