Bifurcation of critical periods from the rigid quadratic isochronous vector field

Abstract This paper is concerned with the study of the number of critical periods of perturbed isochronous centers. More concretely, if X 0 is a vector field having an isochronous center of period T 0 at the point p and X ϵ is an analytic perturbation of X 0 such that the point p is a center for X ϵ then, for a suitable parameterization ξ of the periodic orbits surrounding p, their periods can be written as T ( ξ , ϵ ) = T 0 + T 1 ( ξ ) ϵ + T 2 ( ξ ) ϵ 2 + ⋯ . Firstly we give formulas for the first functions T l ( ξ ) that can be used for quite general vector fields. Afterwards we apply them to study how many critical periods appear when we perturb the rigid quadratic isochronous center x ˙ = − y + x y , y ˙ = x + y 2 inside the class of centers of the quadratic systems or of polynomial vector fields of a fixed degree.

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