Limit Cycles Bifurcating from a Family of Reversible Quadratic Centers via Averaging Theory

Abstract

Consider the class of reversible quadratic systems [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text]. These quadratic polynomial differential systems have a center at the point [Formula: see text] and the circle [Formula: see text] is one of the periodic orbits surrounding this center. These systems can be written into the form [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text]. For all [Formula: see text] we prove that the averaging theory up to seventh order applied to this last system perturbed inside the whole class of quadratic polynomial differential systems can produce at most two limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic orbits surrounding the center (0,0) of that system. Up to now this result was only known for [Formula: see text] (see Li, 2002; Liu, 2012).