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Jaume Llibre1, Marco Antonio Teixeira2
1Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Abstract:
It is known that planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems separated by a straight line have no limit cycles when both linear differential systems are centers. Here, we study the limit cycles of the planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems separated by a circle when both linear differential systems are centers. Our main results show that such discontinuous piecewise differential systems can have zero, one, two, or three limit cycles, but no more limit cycles than three.
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