Bifurcation of Limit Cycles from the Center of a Quintic System via the Averaging Method

Abstract

This paper deals with the bifurcation of limit cycles for a quintic system with one center. Using the averaging method, we explain how limit cycles can bifurcate from the periodic annulus around the center of the considered system by adding perturbed terms which are the sum of homogeneous polynomials of degree [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text]. We show that up to first-order averaging, at most five limit cycles can bifurcate from the period annulus of the unperturbed system for [Formula: see text], at most [Formula: see text] limit cycles can bifurcate from the periodic annulus of the unperturbed system for any [Formula: see text], and the upper bound is sharp for [Formula: see text] and for [Formula: see text].