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Title Alien Limit Cycles in Li\'{e}nard Equations

Name Rafel Prohens
Country Spain
Email rafel.prohens@uib.cat
Co-Author(s) F. Dumortier, R. Prohens
Submit Time 2014-02-21 06:41:46
Session
Special Session 103: Periodic solutions for dynamical systems
Contents
This paper aims at providing an example of a family of polynomial Li\'{e}nard equations exhibiting an alien limit cycle. This limit cycle is perturbed from a $2$-saddle cycle in the boundary of an annulus of periodic orbits given by a Hamiltonian vector field. The Hamiltonian represents a truncated pendulum of degree $4$. In comparison to a former polynomial example, not only the equations are simpler but a lot of tedious calculations can be avoided, making the example also interesting with respect to simplicity in treatment.