Bifurcations of limit cycles from quintic Hamiltonian systems with a double figure eight loop

This paper deals with Liénard equations of the form , , with P and Q polynomials of degree 5 and 4 respectively. Attention goes to perturbations of the Hamiltonian vector fields with an elliptic Hamiltonian of degree six, exhibiting a double figure eight loop. The number of limit cycles and their distributions are given by using the methods of bifurcation theory and qualitative analysis.