Saad Eddine Hamizi, Rachid Boukoucha

A Family of Planar Differential Systems with Explicit Expression for Algebraic and Non-Algebraic Limit Cycles

abstract:
This paper is devoted to the study of a family of planar polynomial differential systems. First, we prove that the considered family has invariant algebraic curves which are given explicitly. Then, we introduce an explicit expression for their first integral. Moreover, we provide sufficient conditions for the systems to possess two limit cycles explicitly given: one is an algebraic and the other is shown to be non-algebraic. The applicability of our result was illustrated by concrete examples.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 34C05, 34C07, 37C27, 37K10

Key words and phrases: Limit cycle, Riccati equation, invariant algebraic curve, first integral