{ "id": "1106.0857", "version": "v3", "published": "2011-06-04T20:45:40.000Z", "updated": "2012-12-12T15:07:42.000Z", "title": "On the number of limit cycles which appear by perturbation of two-saddle cycles of planar vector fields", "authors": [ "Lubomir Gavrilov" ], "comment": "21 pages, 10 figures, a new section explaining the so called \"Petrov trick\" in the context of the paper is added. The paper will appear in \"Functional Analysis and Its Applications\" (2013)", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We prove that every heteroclinic saddle loop (a two-saddle cycle) occurring in an analytic finite-parameter family of plane analytic vector fields, may generate no more than a finite number of limit cycles within the family.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2012-12-12T15:07:42.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "34C07", "37G15", "70K05" ], "keywords": [ "planar vector fields", "two-saddle cycle", "limit cycles", "plane analytic vector fields", "perturbation" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.0857G" } } }