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Global Bifurcation Theory and Hilbert’s Sixteenth Problem

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Valery A. Gaiko

    1. Department of Mathematics, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, BELARUS

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Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications (MAIA, volume 562)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Geometric Methods of Qualitative Investigation and Global Bifurcation Theory

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    Pages 1-42

  3. Andronov-Hopf Bifurcation and Function of Limit Cycles

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    Pages 43-68

  4. Classification of Separatrix Cycles

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    Pages 69-102

  5. Multiple Limit Cycles and Wintner-Perko Termination Principle

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    Pages 103-141

  6. Applications, Open Problems, Alternatives

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    Pages 143-163

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 165-182
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On the 8th of August 1900 outstanding German mathematician David Hilbert delivered a talk "Mathematical problems" at the Second Interna­ tional Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. The talk covered practically all directions of mathematical thought of that time and contained a list of 23 problems which determined the further development of mathema­ tics in many respects (1, 119]. Hilbert's Sixteenth Problem (the second part) was stated as follows: Problem. To find the maximum number and to determine the relative position of limit cycles of the equation dy Qn(X, y) -= dx Pn(x, y)' where Pn and Qn are polynomials of real variables x, y with real coeffi­ cients and not greater than n degree. The study of limit cycles is an interesting and very difficult problem of the qualitative theory of differential equations. This theory was origi­ nated at the end of the nineteenth century in the works of two geniuses of the world science: of the Russian mathematician A. M. Lyapunov and of the French mathematician Henri Poincare. A. M. Lyapunov set forth and solved completely in the very wide class of cases a special problem of the qualitative theory: the problem of motion stability (154]. In turn, H. Poincare stated a general problem of the qualitative analysis which was formulated as follows: not integrating the differential equation and using only the properties of its right-hand sides, to give as more as possi­ ble complete information on the qualitative behaviour of integral curves defined by this equation (176].

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  • Department of Mathematics, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, BELARUS

    Valery A. Gaiko

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