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We provide the best lower bound for the number of critical periods of planar polynomial centers known up to now. The new lower bound is obtained in the Hamiltonian class and considering a single period annulus. This lower bound doubles the previous one from the literature, and we end up with at least n 2 − 2 (resp. n 2 − 2 n − 1) critical periods for planar polynomial systems of odd (resp. even) degree n. Key idea is the perturbation of a vector field with many cusp equilibria, whose construction is by itself a nontrivial construction that uses elements of catastrophe theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to find the highest number of critical periods in a class of planar systems of polynomial differential equations for fixed degree having a center. We fix our attention to lower bounds of local criticality for low degree planar polynomial centers. The main technique is the study of perturbations of reversible holomorphic (isochronous) centers, inside the reversible centers class. More concretely, we study the Taylor developments of the period constants with respect to the perturbation parameters. First, we see that there are systems of degree 3 ≤ n ≤ 16 for which up to first order at least (n 2 + n − 4) / 2 critical periods bifurcate from the center. Second, we improve this number for centers with degree from 3 to 9. In particular, we obtain 6 and 10 critical periods for cubic and quartic degree systems, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are interested in small-amplitude isolated periodic orbits, so-called limit cycles, surrounding only one equilibrium point, that we locate at the origin. We develop a parallelization technique to study higher order developments, with respect to the parameters, of the return map near the origin. This technique is useful to study lower bounds for the local cyclicity of centers. We denote by M (n) the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcating from the origin via a degenerate Hopf bifurcation for a polynomial vector field of degree n. We get lower bounds for the local cyclicity of some known cubic centers and we prove that M (4) ≥ 20 , M (5) ≥ 33 , M (7) ≥ 61 , M (8) ≥ 76 , and M (9) ≥ 88. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Christopher in 2006 proved that under some assumptions the linear parts of the Lyapunov constants with respect to the parameters give the cyclicity of an elementary center. This paper is devoted to establish a new approach, namely parallelization, to compute the linear parts of the Lyapunov constants. More concretely, it is shown that parallelization computes these linear parts in a shorter quantity of time than other traditional mechanisms. To show the power of this approach, we study the cyclicity of the holomorphic center z ˙ = i z + z 2 + z 3 + ⋯ + z n under general polynomial perturbations of degree n , for n ≤ 13 . We also exhibit that, from the point of view of computation, among the Hamiltonian, time-reversible, and Darboux centers, the holomorphic center is the best candidate to obtain high cyclicity examples of any degree. For n = 4 , 5 , … , 13 , we prove that the cyclicity of the holomorphic center is at least n 2 + n − 2 . This result gives the highest lower bound for M ( 6 ) , M ( 7 ) , … , M ( 13 ) among the existing results, where M ( n ) is the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcating from an elementary monodromic singularity of polynomial systems of degree n . As a direct corollary we also obtain the highest lower bound for the Hilbert numbers H ( 6 ) ≥ 40 , H ( 8 ) ≥ 70 , and H ( 10 ) ≥ 108 , because until now the best result was H ( 6 ) ≥ 39 , H ( 8 ) ≥ 67 , and H ( 10 ) ≥ 100 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we are interested in how the local cyclicity of a family of centers depends on the parameters. This fact was pointed out in [21] , to prove that there exists a family of cubic centers, labeled by C D 31 12 in [25] , with more local cyclicity than expected. In this family, there is a special center such that at least twelve limit cycles of small amplitude bifurcate from the origin when we perturb it in the cubic polynomial general class. The original proof has some crucial missing points in the arguments that we correct here. We take advantage of a better understanding of the bifurcation phenomenon in nongeneric cases to show two new cubic systems exhibiting 11 limit cycles and another exhibiting 12. Finally, using the same techniques, we study the local cyclicity of holomorphic quartic centers, proving that 21 limit cycles of small amplitude bifurcate from the origin, when we perturb in the class of quartic polynomial vector fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]