Bifurcation of limit cycles for a class of cubic Hamiltonian systems with nesting period annuli

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain the upper bound of the number of zeros of Abelian integral for a class of cubic Hamiltonian systems with nesting period annuli under perturbations of polynomials of degree n. Furthermore, we consider the Hopf and homoclinic bifurcation when a=-1,b=-2,c=1 and n=3, and obtain 18 distributions in which system has at least 3 limit cycles for each case.