Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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842819 | Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications | 2010 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
In 2002 Jarque and Villadelprat proved that planar polynomial Hamiltonian systems of degree 4 have no isochronous centers and raised an open question for general planar polynomial Hamiltonian systems of even degree. Recently, it was proved that a planar polynomial Hamiltonian system is non-isochronous if a quantity, denoted by M2m−2M2m−2, can be computed such that M2m−2≤0M2m−2≤0. As a corollary of this criterion, the open question was answered for those systems with only even degree nonlinearities. In this paper we consider the case of M2m−2>0M2m−2>0 and give a new criterion for non-isochronicity. Applying the new criterion, we also answer the open question for some cases in which some terms of odd degree are included.
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Authors
Zhaoxia Wang, Xingwu Chen, Weinian Zhang,