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This paper is devoted to study the algebraic limit cycles of planar piecewise linear differential systems. In particular, we present examples exhibiting two explicit hyperbolic algebraic limit cycles, as well as some one-parameter families with a saddle-node bifurcation of algebraic limit cycles. We also show that all degrees for algebraic limit cycles are allowed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider the family of planar differential systems depending on two real parameters This system corresponds to the normal form for the 1:2 resonance which exhibits a heteroclinic connection. The phase portrait of the system has a limit cycle which disappears in the heteroclinic connection for the parameter values on the curve We significantly improve the knowledge of this curve in a neighborhood of the origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study the center-focus problem as well as the number of limit cycles which bifurcate from a weak focus for several families of planar discontinuous ordinary differential equations. Our computations of the return map near the critical point are performed with a new method based on a suitable decomposition of certain one-forms associated with the expression of the system in polar coordinates. This decomposition simplifies all the expressions involved in the procedure. Finally, we apply our results to study a mathematical model of a mechanical problem, the movement of a ball between two elastic walls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]