Limit cycles of continuous and discontinuous piecewise differential systems separated by straight line and formed by two arbitrary quadratic centers

Abstract

Our thesisisdevotedtosolvingasignificantandchallengingissueinthequalitativetheory of differentialsystemscalledthesixteenthHilbertproblem.Moreprecisely,weusethefirst integralstodeterminethemaximumnumberoflimitcyclesofsomefamiliesofdiscontinuous piecewise nonlineardifferentialsystemsseparatedbyastraightline