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Limit Cycles of a Class of Piecewise Smooth Liénard Systems

Lijuan Sheng

Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127416500097Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of limit cycle bifurcation in two piecewise polynomial systems of Liénard type with multiple parameters. Based on the developed Melnikov function theory, we obtain the maximum number of limit cycles of these two systems.

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