Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, PR China
Abstract:
It has been already known that the maximum number of limit cycles near a homoclinic loop of a quadratic Hamiltonian system under quadratic perturbations is two. However, the problem of finding the maximum number of limit cycles in the 2-polycycle case is still open. This paper addresses the problem in some detail and solves it partially.