Coexisting Isochronous and Nonisochronous Centres

J. Devlin

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society · 1996 · 20 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

A new condition is given for a planar polynomial system to have an isochronous centre. This is used to construct a system with a rational first integral and coexisting isochronous and nonisochronous centres, thus settling a recent conjecture that no such systems exist.