SHARP UPPERBOUNDS FOR THE NUMBER OF LARGE AMPLITUDE LIMIT CYCLES IN POLYNOMIAL LIENARD SYSTEMS

In [1] and [2] upperbounds have been given for the number of large amplitude limit cycles in polynomial Lienard systems of type (m, n) with m < 2n + 1, m and n odd. In the current paper we improve the upperbounds from [1] and [2] by one unity, obtaining sharp results. We therefore introduce the "method of cloning variables" that might be useful in other cyclicity problems.