On the Number of Limit Cycles of Discontinuous Liénard Polynomial Differential Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the number of limit cycles for two classes of discontinuous Liénard polynomial perturbed differential systems. By the second-order averaging theorem of discontinuous differential equations, we provide several criteria on the lower upper bounds for the maximum number of limit cycles. The results show that the second-order averaging theorem of discontinuous differential equations can predict more limit cycles than the first-order one.