Bifurcations of Critical Periods for a Class of Quintic Liénard Equation

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a quintic Liénard equation which has a center at the origin. We give the conditions for the parameters for the isochronous centers and weak centers of exact order. Then, we present the global phase portraits for the system having isochronous centers. Moreover, we prove that at most four critical periods can bifurcate and show with appropriate perturbations that local bifurcation of critical periods occur from the centers.