Limit Cycles of Discontinuous Piecewise Differential Hamiltonian Systems Separated by a Straight Line

Abstract

In this article, we study the maximum number of limit cycles of discontinuous piecewise differential systems, formed by two Hamiltonians systems separated by a straight line. We consider three cases, when both Hamiltonians systems in each side of the discontinuity line have simultaneously degree one, two or three. We obtain that in these three cases, this maximum number is zero, one and three, respectively. Moreover, we prove that there are discontinuous piecewise differential systems realizing these maximum number of limit cycles. Note that we have solved the extension of the 16th Hilbert problem about the maximum number of limit cycles that these three classes of discontinuous piecewise differential systems separated by one straight line and formed by two Hamiltonian systems with a degree either one, two, or three, which such systems can exhibit.