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The error in Petrovski and Landis' proof of the 16th Hilbert problem
What was the main error in the proof of the second part of the 16th Hilbert problem by Petrovski and Landis?
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Counting limit cycles via curvature in Riemannian geometry
In this post we would like to give a possible new approach to the second part of the Hilbert 16th problem
First we give a short introduction:
A quadratic system is a polynomial vector field on ...
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Algebraic independence of limit cycles of Lienard equation
It is well known that the Van der Pol equation $$\begin{cases} \dot x=y-(x^3-x)\\\dot y=-x \end{cases}$$ has no an algebraic limit cycle.
According to this fact, we search for a related ...
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Vector fields whose divergence are proper maps
Let $X$ be a polynomial vector field of degree $2$ on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. Does there exist a nonvanishing smooth function $g$ such that $Div(gX)$ is a proper map?Or at least the zero locus of $Div(...