Resumen de Limit Cycles for a Class of Continuous and Discontinuous Cubic Polynomial Differential Systems

Jaume Llibre , Bruno D. Lopes, Jaime R. de Moraes

• We study the maximum number of limit cycles that bifurcate from the periodic solutions of the family of isochronous cubic polynomial centers x˙ = y(−1 + 2αx + 2βx2), y˙ = x + α(y2 − x2) + 2βxy2, α ∈ R,β< 0, when it is perturbed inside the classes of all continuous and discontinuous cubic polynomial differential systems with two zones of discontinuity separated by a straight line. We obtain that this number is 3 for the perturbed continuous systems and at least 12 for the discontinuous ones using the averaging method of first order.