Limit cycles bifurcating from a quadratic reversible Lotka-Volterra system with a center and three saddles

Abstract

This paper is concerned with limit cycles which bifurcate from a period annulus of a quadratic reversible Lotka-Volterra system with sextic orbits. The authors apply the property of an extended complete Chebyshev system and prove that the cyclicity of the period annulus under quadratic perturbations is equal to two.

Keywords

Reversible Lotka-Volterra systems / Abelian integrals / Limit cycles

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