Center conditions and bifurcation of limit cycles at three-order nilpotent critical point in a septic Lyapunov system Original Research Article

In this paper, center conditions and bifurcation of limit cycles at the nilpotent critical point in a class of septic polynomial differential systems are investigated. With the help of computer algebra system MATHEMATICA, the first 13 quasi-Lyapunov constants are deduced. As a result, sufficient and necessary conditions in order to have a center are obtained. The result that there exist 13 small amplitude limit cycles created from the three order nilpotent critical point is also proved. Henceforth we give a lower bound of cyclicity of three-order nilpotent critical point for septic Lyapunov systems.