On the Limit Cycles Bifurcating from a Quadratic Reversible Center of Genus One

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the bifurcation of limit cycles in perturbations of a quadratic reversible system with a center of genus one. By studying the properties of the auxiliary curve and centroid curve defined by the Abelian integrals, we have proved that under small quadratic perturbations, at most two limit cycles arise from the period annulus surrounding the quadratic reversible center, and the bound is sharp. This partially verifies Conjecture 1 given in Gautier et al. (Discrete Contin Dyn Syst 25:511–535, 2009).