3.I.7E

Dynamical Systems | Part II, 2007

State the Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem for a system x˙=f(x)\dot{\mathbf{x}}=\mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}) in R2\mathbb{R}^{2}.

Prove that if k2<4k^{2}<4 then the system

x˙=x−y−x3−xy2−k2xy2y˙=y+x−x2y−y3−k2x2y\begin{aligned} &\dot{x}=x-y-x^{3}-x y^{2}-k^{2} x y^{2} \\ &\dot{y}=y+x-x^{2} y-y^{3}-k^{2} x^{2} y \end{aligned}

has a periodic orbit in the region 2/(2+k2)⩽x2+y2⩽12 /\left(2+k^{2}\right) \leqslant x^{2}+y^{2} \leqslant 1.

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