A general class of centers for the Poincare problem
Abstract
We consider the classical Poincare problem of a linear center perturbed by homogeneous polynomials of degree n >= 2. Using certain parity properties of a related differential equation, we develop a technique for obtaining center conditions for an arbitrary value of n and use it to exhibit explicitly new center conditions for n = 4,..., 8. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.