The center conditions and local bifurcation of critical periods for a Liénard system

In this paper we study the problems of centers and isochronous centers and the local bifurcation of critical periods for a Liénard system with forth damping. Calculating the singular point values and period constants, we find all center conditions and isochronous center conditions. Moreover, the numbers of local critical periods bifurcating from centers and isochronous centers is obtained by computing the orders of weak centers.